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EXTRA INFORMATION
COMPRESS.EXE
Setup Builder provides the facility to compress files before they are placed
on your installation suite disks.
In order for Setup Builder to use COMPRESS.EXE, COMPRESS.EXE is placed in
your WINDOWS directory. COMPRESS.EXE must be 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 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 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.
- Dialog editor program for user defined dialogs
KNOWN PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS
Please see the Setup Builder online Windows Help File section 'Commonly
Reported Problems'.