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- Maintenance Release Notes
-
- This section lists changes and enhancements made in
- InstallShield Express 2.02.
-
- February 19, 1998
-
- 1. New: The self-registration property for an individual
- file can be toggled on or off from with Express.
-
- By highlighting the file in the File Groups window of the
- Groups tab and selecting Properties, a file can set to
- self-register if it does not have a built-in
- OLESelfRegister string or set to ignore the string if it
- does exist.
-
- 2. New: Visual dBase 7 and Borland C++Builder 3 objects
- have been added.
-
- To access these objects, select either Visual dBASE or
- Borland C++ Builder from the Project Type dialog in the
- New Project dialog box.
-
- 3. New: A right click menu and a toolbar have been added
- to the Groups tab.
-
- These two additions make it much easier to work with the
- file groups and individual files in the tab, including
- quick reordering of the files within a group.
-
- 4. New: File groups can be targeted for specific 32-bit
- operating systems.
-
- If you have files that should only be installed to a
- specific operating system, this can now be done in
- Express 2.02. This option can be found in the properties
- for each file group. The default setting of this option
- remains all platforms.
-
- 5. Enhancement: Microsoft Access driver has been added.
-
- The Microsoft Access driver is now available for those
- project types using BDE 4.5 or higher.
-
- 6. Enhancement: Never overwrite files option.
-
- The option to set a file group's version control to
- "Never Overwrite" has been added.
-
- 7. Enhancement: System ODBC data sources can be added.
-
- On the bottom of the ODBC Step 4 of 5 wizard panel, the
- data source type can be set as either User or System.
- Previously, only user data sources could be created.
-
- 8. Enhancement: Type library files are now
- self-registered.
-
- All 32-bit type library (.tlb) files will be self-registered
- upon installation. (This property can also be toggled
- off...refer to item 1.)
-
- 9. Enhancement: Copy to Floppy dialog retains project
- path information.
- The Copy to Floppy dialog box now retains the drive and
- path information for each individual setup project,
- eliminating the need to re-enter it upon each media copy.
-
- 10. Enhancement: Flat tool bars and updated icons have
- been added to the user interface.
-
- These additions give Express a more modern look.
-
- 11. Change: Installation of BDE 4.0 over BDE 3.0.
-
- An Express-built installation including the installation
- of BDE 4.0 will overwrite an existing copy of BDE 3.0.
- Previously, this did not work correctly in all
- installations.
-
- 12. Change: Installing BDE to a non-default location.
-
- Installing BDE to a non-default location on the target
- system will not make all of the correct reference
- counting and registrations.
- Previously, not all of the files were registered
- correctly for access by other applications.
-
- 13. Change: Uninstalling BDE as part of the application's
- uninstall.
-
- Only the correct BDE files are now uninstalled as part of
- an application's uninstallation.
- Previously, some files were erroneously being uninstalled
- due to incorrect reference counting.
-
- 14. Change: Registration of 16-bit executable files.
-
- The self-registration of 16-bit executable files would
- behave as expected.
- Previously, the registration would fail.
-
- 15. Change: Cyclic destination location referencing for
- file groups.
-
- When cyclic destination location referencing in detected
- by Express, an error message will be presented upon
- attempting to leave the Groups tab.
- Previously, in such cases the error was not noted until
- the disk building process.
-
- 16. Change: Entering non-directory specifiers in the
- Destination Directory field.
-
- Express will now check the entry in this field to
- determine if it is a known directory specifier (such as
- ProgramFilesDir) and handle it accordingly.
- Previously, an "out of disk space" error was displayed at
- run time.
-
- 17. Change: Installing newer versions of Comcat.dll.
-
- The 5.0 version of Comcat.dll requires a newer version of
- OLE than the previous 4.71 version. For those installs
- that do not wish to install a new OLE on the target
- machine, Comcat.dll version 4.71 has been added to
- Express's Redist folder.
- Previously, Comcat.dll would fail to self-register if the
- newer OLE was not present.
-
- 18. Change: Using FONTDIR directory specifier.
-
- Express will now correctly install the font to the
- correct folder on all supported operating systems.
- Previously, all fonts would be installed in the
- Windows/System folder, regardless of the operating system.
-
- 19. Change: Targeting the root directory of a drive.
-
- Changing the destination directory from the default entry
- to a root level (c: or c:\, for example) will result in a
- valid path during the install.
- Previously, a double backslash would be added to new
- path, resulting in an entry such as "C:\\Program...".
-
- 20. Change: Installing applications on system with
- CleanSweep running.
-
- Installations created using InstallShield Express 2.02
- will now install correctly on systems running CleanSweep
- due to modifications made in the InstallShield engine.
- Previously, older versions of CleanSweep would not allow
- the Express engine to initialize on these systems,
- causing the installation to never complete.
-
- 21. Change: Autorun.inf settings are preserved.
-
- Checking the Generate Autorun.inf option in the Settings
- tab of the Run Disk Builder dialog box will be saved and
- reused for future builds.
- Previously, this setting was discarded after the build
- was complete.
-
- 22. Change: Old filename is not displayed once project is
- closed.
-
- Once a project is closed in Express, the project's name
- no longer appears in the main Express title bar.
- Previously, the old project name would be displayed until
- a new project was created.
-
- 23. Change: All project settings are saved.
-
- All settings are saved for the project, regardless of the
- size of the .iwz file.
- Previously, certain settings were not written to the .iwz
- file due to internal Express limitations.
-
- 24. Change: "Unable to create directory" message displays
- correct directory name.
-
- The "Unable to create directory" message now displays the
- correct directory name for the error.
- Previously, the message displayed the name of the last
- successfully created directory.
-
- 25. Change: German "Setup Complete" dialog error fixed.
-
- The "Setup abgeschlossen" dialog box now reads "Ja ich
- m÷chte das Programm starten."
- Previously, the line read "Ja ich m÷echte das Programm
- starten."
-
- 26. Change: Backslashes in Optional Parameters field of
- Express Extensions dialog.
-
- Backslashes can now be entered in the Optional Program
- Parameters field in Express Extensions dialog.
- Previously, the Optional Program Parameters field in the
- Express Extensions dialog did not handle a backslash.
- Entering a backslash in this field caused all parameter
- information before it in the Extensions window to be
- erased from view.
-
- 27. Change: Using SRCDIR directory specifier.
-
- The SRCDIR specifier will behave as expected when
- referring files on the root level of a CD.
- Previously, the correct location was not returned by
- SRCDIR if the referenced files were at the root level of
- the CD.
-
- 28. Change: Misspelling in Dutch end-user dialogs.
-
- The correct spelling of ge∩nstalleerde is now used.
- Previously, it was spelled with "i" instead of "∩".
-
- 29. Change: Spacing in Progress bar
-
- A space now appears between the text label and the file
- being copied for all languages.
-
- Previously, the text label and the file name were
- displayed without a space between in some languages (for
- example, "Bestanden worden gedecomprimeerd inC:\TR20test").
-
- 30. Change: Unknown files on some NT systems
-
- This release of Express removes all temporary files it
- creates from NT systems.
- Previously, some unnamed, empty files were occasionally
- left behind on NT systems.
-
- 31. Change: %PATH% value for Expanded String registry
- values.
-
- The correct string for the Extended String value type
- will be written to the registry.
- Previously, the string was not being written to the
- registry if this value type was selected.
-
- 32. Change: Sql_inf.cnt and Sql_db2.cnt files for Delphi
- 3 projects.
-
- The Sql_inf.cnt and Sql_db2.cnt files have been added to
- the Redist folder for Delphi 3 projects.
- Previously, these files were not available for Delphi 3
- project types.
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