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EXTRA INFORMATION
COMPRESS.EXE
SetupBuilder provides the facility to compress files before they are placed
on your installation suite disks. In order to use this facility, the
Microsoft COMPRESS.EXE program is required. This is not supplied with
SetupBuilder, but you will probably already have it as part of a number
of other products.
In order for SetupBuilder to use COMPRESS.EXE, COMPRESS.EXE must be in the
SetupBuilder directory, your Windows directory or a directory pointed to by
the PATH statement in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
PAYMENT FOR SOFTWARE
Please see the Setup Builder help file 'Payment for and Registration of
Software' section for information on how you can pay for your copy of the
Setup Builder software.
MORE INFORMATION
If you require any further information, please see the Setup
Builder help file 'Contacting the Author' section for information
on how to contact the author.
NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 3.05
- 3d Dialogs and controls
- Redesign/improved ease of use to all dialogs
NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 3.06
- Internal bug fixes
NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 3.07
- Configuration of compressed file name extensions ie .EXE to .EX_
- Correction of bug which sometimes prevented SaveAs and New
dialogs working
- Configuration of temporary file directory now possible
- Correction of bug during build: if source file was not found,
error message was corrupt where it refered to the source file name
- Correction of bug at end of build: copying of script file did
not delete the dummy script file first resulting in an incorrect
space availability check and the script file not being placed on
the first disk
- Ability to specify target directory in addition to the current
drive letter feature. Enables install procedures to be built on
your hard disk
- Correction of bug which caused the first file overwrite
confirmation message in an install procedure to be correct, but
subsequent ones to have the file name at the start of the message
instead of in place of the '$' substitution marker
- New/larger toolbar buttons
- 6 extra 'user code' sections
- Now supports files larger than the size of diskettes (unlike
many alternative products) and splits them across multiple
diskettes. Also handles compressed files split across multiple
diskettes. Much more efficient use of diskette space
NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 3.08
- Now supports background 'advertising' bitmaps during application
installation - for company logos etc or a default shaded backdrop
Supported by completely new 'Backdrop Display' dialog in Setup
Builder
- Nested calling of script files from within script files
- MakeIcon() extended to allow setting of icon, and default path
and supported in 'File Attributes' dialog in Setup Builder
- Bug fix: Overwrite confirmation message wrong way round - it
refered to overwriting the file on the diskette with that on the
hard disk. Now fixed. Code which actually copied files was always
Ok in spite of this error.
NEW FEATURES PLANNED FOR FUTURE RELEASES
- Install 'queue cards' - display changing comments during
an installation - for advertising the product being installed
and telling the user what the product can do and to fill in
registration cards etc
- Menu system whereby a number of applications can be placed
on a diskette in different directories and the user can select
from a list applications to install/de-install.
- User defined dialogs
KNOWN PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS
Please see the Setup Builder online Windows Help File section 'Commonly
Reported Problems'.