2.0 Release Candidate 1

D.5 2.0 Release Candidate 1

Released on Decemeber 27th, 2003

Trying the LZMA compression method for your installer is recommended. It often gives a 20% better compression ratio.
Modern UI 1.68: The setting to change the title size on the Welcome page and Finish page has been changed

LZMA compression support. Added SetCompresssorDictSize.
Modern UI 1.68: New settings for extra space for title and text on Welcome page and Finish page, improved handling of verbose settings, language file string for uninstaller reboot information, more
Shell folders are now detected using shell API functions and not the registry. This is the recommended method by Microsoft. New constants have been added in the process ($FONTS, $SENDTO and more...). See section 4.2.3 for more details.
Added LogicLib to distribution (easier conditional execution etc.)
Added DirVerify and GetInstDirError to allow custom error checking when the installation directory is invalid or the drive does not have enough space
Support for reading environmental variables on compile time: $%envVarName%
Added /SD parameter for MessageBox. Allows to set default for silent installers.
New conditional compilation options: !ifmacrodef and !ifmacrondef.
New sections macros for mutually exclusive section selection
Improved RTL support by adding WS_EX_RTLREADING wherever possible

InstallOptions 2.3: Added new control type "Button", added new flag "NOTIFY", added new flag "NOWORDWRAP" for multi-line text boxes, reduced size down to 12K
MakeNSISW: More options to set the compression method
Zip2Exe 0.31: Fixed compression setting, LZMA compression support
VPatch 2.1: Better error handling and exit code for GenPat