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EXTRA INFORMATION
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 even though the message was wrong.
- Bug fix: Pressing 'Cancel' after pressing 'Build' caused program
to lock. Now fixed.
- Confirm overwrite and check useage files now appear in the gauge
- Bug fix: MakeIcon() had problems if command had parameters which
included a comma - Progman DDE took the comma as the next
parameter and created a completely incorrect icon
- Backdrop shading now light at top, dark at bottom to conform with
Microsoft design standards
NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 3.09
- Now supports User Defined dialogs with new functions:
CreateDialog
CreateControl
DestroyDialog
SetFocus
CentreDialog
- Extra toolbar icons added
- Visual Basic .MAK project import facility added
- Now supplied with Sample projects and script files which are
also documented in the help file
- Cut/Copy/Paste added to main application window
- Setup About dialog copyright text can now be changed
- Cut/Copy/Paste added to user code dialog
- Number of files limit increased to 1024 for registered versions
- User can now configure 'Initialising xxx Setup...' message when
SETUP.EXE is first run
- Script language file opening/reading/writing enhanced to allow
10 files to be open at a time instead of the previous one for
reading and one for writing
NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 4.00
- Auto language translation for in-built dialog box buttons added.
Languages supported:
US English
UK English
French
German
- Shared File Registry functions added:
Register
UnRegister
- Shared File Registry now used by Setup Builder created scripts
- New standard dialog template added to DialogBox function:
DEINSTALL
- De-Install procedure completely re-written and significantly
enhanced so that it is now automatically created with the user
not needing to write script code as before
- All dialog text can now be changed by the user - defaults to
appropriate language translation (English, French or German)
- Target disk space availability checked at install time
- OpenIn/Out and CloseIn/Out functions replaced with Open and
Close functions which have in turn been extended to allow up
to 10 files to be opened at a time instead of the old one for
input and one for output at a time
- ReadLine/WriteLine functions modified to support above file
handling changes
- Hourglass now displays during all time consuming processing
- SETUP.EXE and INSTALL.EXE now placed on first target diskette
at build time so that the user can start an installtion with
either SETUP or INSTALL
- Help File documentation udpdated
- Bug Fix: INST.EXE couldn't handle files being copied to
directories with a point in eg an attempt to copy a
file to C:\TEST.TMP\TEST.DAT would fail. Now fixed.
- Bug Fix: Cut file facility corrupted the current project.
Caused by a failure of _mktemp to create the
clipboard temporary file name. Now fixed.
- New feature added to allow the user to manually encrypt or
un-encrypt a script file
- Short sight: Prompt text which asks the user at install time
about building a program manager group was not
available to change in the project dialog text
dialog. It now is.
- Install/De-Install now removes itself from a H/D once it has
completed. It formally left a few files in \WINDOWS\TEMP. The
directory however is not removed because many applications use
\WINDOWS\TEMP as a temporary file directory
- Default text for prompt to create Program manager group and icons
did not have a French translation. Now added.
- Facility to import external component files from third party
products added eg Run-Time support files such as VBRUN300.DLL
and Microsoft Access
- *** IMPORTANT NOTE: *** Escape character for special characters
changed from \ to ^ as it caused all kinds of user confusion and
incompatibilities with directory and file names starting with
numbers. This change may impact any strings you have used in your
scripts which have Escape sequences for non-ASCII characters
embedded in them. See the 'Standards and Notations' help,
'Strings' section in the script language help file for more
information
- GetBackupName() function added
- Bug Fix: De-install script code was still using \ as the escape
character. Should be ^ Now fixed in Setup Builder which
created the script code incorrectly.
Bug Fix: De-Install facility did not unprotect protected files
before trying to delete them, consequently a de-install
did not work.
- Bug Fix: File encryption caused German umlaute u (ü) character
252 not to be unencrypted properly due to a fault in the
algorithm used. It resulted in the character being
replaced by a carriage return (chr 13). Now fixed.
- Bug Fix: Copying a file in a script failed with a 'no space on
target disk' error message if the drive letter in the
file name was supplied in lower case. Now fixed.
- Bug Fix: De-install was deleting Program Manager group
%Application%. It should have been deleting the group
name specified in the Project/PM Group dialog. Now fixed
by a change to Setup Builder which created the script
incorrectly
- Ability to select the language to be used for an install procedure
added. This replaces the 'auto' selection which wasn't wholly
reliable and required the user to reconfigure Windows to build an
install for another country. The user can now build different
installs for different countries simply by choosing the language
and not having to reconfigure Windows
NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 4.01
- INST.EXE converted to use DDEML in DDE conversation with Program
Manager instead of 'old-style' SDK message sending protocol
- Backdrop Preview facility added
- Multitasking added to build process
- Internal fixes
- Append mode added to file writing Open() function
- CLEANUP.EXE now put on first as well as last disks. This means
that in a multi-disk install if you quit out before copying files
you no longer get asked for the last disk
- New tab added to Project Attributes dialog so that the user can
select whether to include the following files on the diskette:
SETUP.EXE
INSTALL.EXE
LZEXPAND.DLL
- Language support added for:
Italian
Spanish
NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 4.01.002
- Minor bug fixes
- Icon text field size increased
- Application name field size increased
- GOTO statement processing changed. Result = significantly
increased performance
- IMPORT.INI errors corrected for ODBCINST.DLL/,HLP, GRAPH.VBX
- Setup Builder now deletes its temporary files from WINDOWS\TEMP
if Windows is shut down while Setup Builder is running. Previously
the files didn't get deleted. Normal File/Exit however, has always
deleted files correctly.
NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 5.00.000 - Major Upgrade
- Some backdrop bitmaps cause a GPF. This is now handled as a
proper run-time error. The interpreter only handles Windows DIB
bitmaps and no other formats. A failure to recognise a bitmap
was not being handled properly in older versions of SB. It now is.
- New functions added:
HideSetup()
AppendProfileString()
EndCopyFile()
- Optional installations facility added which enables you to give
the installer the option of several different installations
which each install the same or different files (configured by
the developer)
- User Defined Objects feature added. This is a major change which
now means that backdrops and user defined dialogs are considered
as objects. Backdrops have been given a complete revamp in the
process to make them much more flexible than in previous versions
of SB. There is a completely new Object Manager facility which
enables objects to be created/deleted/imported and well as all
the controls within them maintained - the Object Editor.
- Cue Cards (ANA Bill Boards) added as an extention to the User
Defined Object feature.
- Accelerator keys standardised with Windows conventions
- Setup Builder converted to an MDI application and build results
window added
- Optional full file details in file list ie file size/date/time
- Abbreviated file attributes in file list dropped in favour of
expanded form
- Modified so that DOSEXEC.PIF and COMPRESS.EXE/.TXT reside in the
Setup Builder directory instead of WINDOWS\SYSTEM
- Progress gauge improved to update visibly correctly when mercury
overwrites the text percentage
- The following functions have all been changed or dropped from the
script language to accomodate the new 'cue card' system:
SetBackdropText() Dropped
DestroyDialog() Renamed to DestroyObject()
CentreDialog() New parameters added, but still
backwards compatible - parameters
default to make backwards compatible.
ShowBackdrop() Parameters completely changed
- ConfirmOverWrite() now uses VER.DLL to compare file versions. If
a file doesn't have VER.DLL version info, the default date/time
version check is done instead. Parameters changed.
- Default script file extension changed to .SCR. This is because
some security and virus protection systems interfere with DOS and
prevent directories such as \WINDOWS\TEMP (where SB installs are
placed at install-time) being created. This caused a Setup
Builder install to install its run-time in the Windows directory
instead of WINDOWS\TEMP (the security/virus protection software
must have masked an erroneous error code and returned success to
SB, because it didn't fail - SB checks error return codes and
would have failed if an error code was returned properly and
not artificially masked), including its SETUP.INF script file
which overwrote the SETUP.INF file used by the Windows Setup
program in the Windows directory. This corrupted the entire
Windows installation.
Script file name extensions have be changed to avoid further
conflict of this nature.
Tip: Watch out for these security and virus protection products:
they could interfere with your software too!
There is no way around this problem except to disable the
security/protection products before running an installation. You
will find that ALL installation programs from other vendors will
not be able to overcome security/virus protection products which
prevent directories being created and files deleted.
- Script language can now read DOS environment variables as though
they were normal script language variables.
- Dutch language support added
- Display a message in a window and carry on feature added
- Run-time interpreter now always compressed on diskette to leave
maximum space for your files
- Progress gauge functionality extended with new script functions
- Bug Fix: Clipboard Paste feature had a bug in it which allowed a
file to be pasted into a project more than once. A file
can only be included in a project once. Now fixed.
- Registry functions added
- Bug Fix: Preview failed when the project script was set to be
encrypted. Half way through, the script ended up
encrypted which the interpreter couldn't handle, causing
the preview to fail.
- Bug Fix: Adding new files to project either via Project/Edit, 3rd
party components or VB import did not default the optional
install to 1. This caused the gauge at install time to
show 100% all the time! Now fixed.
- Bug Fix: De-install script file always created in the default
install directory even if the user changes the directory
upon first installation. Now changed so that script is
created to re-evaluate the de-install script file name
when the user enters the install directory.
- Bug Fix: Clicking 'Back' in ASKPATH dialog at install time caused
a run-time Error 05 (label not found) on :BACK1
This occured when the de-install feature was not selected
in a project. Now fixed.
- Bug Fix: 'Interlocking behaviour' between 'protect' and 'unprotect'
file properties when they are clicked on. Caused by
erroneous code which set the wrong (opposite) property
when either property was changed. Now fixed.
- Project Files, File Attributes, Project Objects and Output windows
now save their position and size so that they appear in their last
position when recreated. This also works between SB sessions.
- Maximum files increased to 2048 (Professional version only).
Project Files window is now an Owner Drawn list.
- Bug Fix: Several File Open/Save As dialogs displayed a corrupted
'List of File Types'. Now fixed.
- Project Directories dialog added. Although installations with
multiple install directories have always been possible with
Setup Builder, the new dialog makes creating such installations
much easier, automating the process completely. Previously, extra
user defined script was required. This extra script is still
compatible, but should be removed if the new dialog is used
instead.
- Label stack modified to improve performance. It now uses a buffer
rather than CStrings which use heap space and compete with user
defined objects for memory. With large numbers of labels and
large numbers of user defined objects, 'strange' effects may
have been noticed. Now fixed.
- DIBAPI.DLL now combined into interpreter module (INSTxx.EXE)
- New functions added:
RegWriteInt()
RegGetInt()
NEW FEATURES TO VERSION 5.01.000 - Major Upgrade
- 32 bit support now provided in the form of a full 32 bit version
of the Setup Builder and run-time interpreter programs.
The user can select whether they want a 16 or 32 bit or both
installation: the run-time will identify which to run.
- New user-defined dialog controls added:
Listbox
Combo box
Dropdown list
- New commands added
AddListItem()
Skip()
OpenDeInstall()
AddDeInstall()
CloseDeInstall()
- Full support for long file names (32 bit version only)
- Full support of Windows 95/NT registry (32 bit version only)
- Registration of OLE controls added
- De-Install now creates a PM icon and no longer requires the
install disk to de-install an application.
NEW FEATURES PLANNED FOR FUTURE RELEASES
- Automatic support for self extracting files (both DOS and Windows)
- Allow an install to automatically select its language, rather than
having to build one install for each language required.
KNOWN PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS
- DllSelfRegister for OLE controls is not currently working
properly. This is being fixed for the next release.
Please see the Setup Builder online Windows Help File section 'Commonly
Reported Problems'.