Setup Factory 8.0 - Last Minute Notes

Product Name:	Setup Factory 8.0
Version:	8.2.2.0 - (what has changed?)
Release Date:	June 22, 2010
Distribution:	Unauthorized distribution prohibited. See License.txt for details.

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Thank you choosing Setup Factory 8.0! To get the most out of this software, we recommend that you start by reading the User's Guide. We’ve included an instruction and tutorial in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. It’s a great place to start.

You’ll find a shortcut to the User's Guide on the Start menu under Start -> Programs -> Indigo Rose Corporation -> Setup Factory 8.0.

We also provide a number of other helpful resources to get you up to speed. Look for them on the Help menu within the software. You’ll find a complete help system, tips & tricks, command reference material and web links to our online user discussion community and technical support system.

Ordering information can be found on our website.

We’d love to hear what you think of Setup Factory 8.0. Please stop by our online forums and tell us what you think. You’ll find links and other product information at http://www.indigorose.com

Release History

8.2.2.0 - June 22, 2010

Feature: Added a "(plugin)" suffix in the Action Wizard for action categories that were added by a plugin.
Feature: Updated lzma.exe to version 4.65.
Feature: Updated upx.exe to version 3.05.
Feature: Added support for Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 to the OS system requirements tree.
Fix: Fixed a bug where if the File.GetShortName action failed, a string containing garbage would be returned. Failure can occur if the file does not exist.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the second parameter of the Table.Sort action wasn't being handled properly.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the UninstallData.RemoveItem action was not updating the uninstall.xml properly if the UNINDATA_FOLDERS InstallType was used.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the _IgnoreInvalidCertificate global would not ignore certificate revocation errors.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the spell checker would only work properly with text shorter than 1000 characters.
Fix: Fixed a bug where adding uninstall scripts to the uninstall data file using the UninstallData.AddItem action twice without uninstalling, would correct the script.
Fix: Fixed a bug where Application.LoadScript would fail if Lua was installed.

8.2.1.0 - November 6, 2009

Feature: Added a "Use body heading font" checkbox to the custom screen's Text Properties dialog.
Fix: Fixed a bug where File.Find actions would sometimes fail when the executable was on a CD-ROM.
Fix: Fixed a bug where long paths to the uninstall executable could cause a crash after the uninstall completed.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the last screen in a sequence was not freeing its font data at the correct time.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the uninstall data folder would sometimes not be removed.

8.2.0.0 - October 27, 2009

Feature: Added a multi-line edit dialog to the IR Script Editor.
Feature: Added support for Windows Server 2008 R2 to the System.GetOSName action and OS Conditions.
Feature: Increased the maximum possible number of characters that can be read in when using the INIFile.GetValueNames action.
Feature: Added support for the "InstallLocation", "VersionMajor", and "VersionMinor" uninstall registry keys.
Feature: Added Turkish language module.
Feature: Added the ability to rename design-time constants.
Feature: Made it so that files protected under WFP will be skipped during the installation.
Feature: Made it so that the File.Install action will not overwrite files protected by WFP.
Feature: Added extra log file information when a file failed to register using either the Register COM interfaces or Register TypeLib options.
Feature: Changed the default location of log files and the uninstall executable to be more compliant with Windows Vista and Windows 7 standards. The new default for log files is the Temporary directory, and the new default uninstall executable location is the application folder.
Feature: Made it so that build configuration selections are saved per-session.
Fix: Added compatibility section to application manifests for Windows 7.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the click to skip option was not working for the Dialog.SplashImage action.
Fix: Fixed a bug where a final CRLF was throwing off the Base64 decoding.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the HTTP.Sumbit action was not working properly with invalid certificates and the _IgnoreInvalidCertificate variable set to true.
Fix: Fixed a bug in the Dialog.SplashImage action where second delays greater than 59 seconds were not working.
Fix: Fixed a bug where design-time constants were not being expanded on "While Installing" screens.
Fix: Added support for Windows restart messages in Setup Factory's design.
Fix: Fixed a bug where design-time constants were not properly saving newly edited values when deleting design-time constants.
Fix: Fixed a bug on the Uninstall Settings dialog where the "Always on top" checkbox was not being enabled/disabled based on the "Create uninstall" state.
Fix: Fixed a bug in the DlgProgressBar.SetProperties action's description text where "Enabled" was shown instead of "Visible."
Fix: Fixed a bug on the "Setup File" tab of the "Build Settings" dialog where the "Custom" size setting's enabled/disabled state was improperly being set.
Fix: Removed the custom screen type from the While Installing and While Uninstalling screen lists.
Fix: Added a build warning if a file added from a folder reference already exists (same source location) in the file list resulting in it being skipped.
Fix: Fixed a bug where skipping files in a code-signed multi-segment installation would sometimes cause a crash.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the HTTP.TestConnection action was not using AutoProxy or setting proxy information properly.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the uninstall executable and folder would not be properly removed if 8.3 file naming was disabled on the system.

8.1.1008.0 - June 10, 2009

Feature: Added Windows 7 support to the System.GetOSName action.
Feature: Added Windows 7 support to the Operating System condition tree.
Feature: Made it so that invalid certificates can be ignored through the use of an undocumented variable called _IgnoreInvalidCertificate.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the read-only style for the edit field was not being set or removed properly when the control was enabled at runtime.
Fix: Fixed a bug where a blank error message would appear when using a session variable as the "Load from file" setting of an HTML scrolling text control.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the custom screen properties would occasionally crash.
Fix: Made it so that the HTTP Error Dialog will be displayed (if allowed) if an invalide certificate is encountered.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the Scrolling Text control was rendered unselectable if "HTML" text type, and "Load from file" was selected.
Fix: Fixed a bug where comments were causing errors when importing .REG files.
Fix: Made it so that if the uninstall executable already exists, it overwrites it even if it is the same version. This fixes an issue with evaluation version uninstall executables.
Fix: Fixed a bug where large icons would sometimes cause the resulting executable to break.
Fix: Fixed a bug so that the uninstall executable and uninstall folder are removed properly at the end of the uninstall process if successful.
Fix: Fixed a bug where Scrolling HTML controls could not be shown or hidden.
Fix: Fixed a bug where Scrolling Text control IDs were incorrect when referenced on the custom screen.
Fix: Fixed a bug where screen images located outside of a project theme when "override project theme" is selected weren't being saved properly.
Fix: Fixed a bug where REG_DWORD values larger then MAX_INT were not being written to the registry properly.

8.1.1006.0 - November 6, 2008

Feature: Added a new action called "System.GetOSProductInfo" that gets the product type for the operating system (only supported on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008).
Feature: Added the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 dependency module.
Fix: Fixed a bug where screens exported to the All User Application Data folder were not loading their text properly.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the File.GetSize action would return the incorrect file size for files larger then 4.7GB.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the Add Files dialog on Windows Vista was not displaying all of the add options.
Fix: Fixed a bug where you had to select at least one file on the Add Files dialog in order to get the add options to work. This is still a known issue on Windows Vista.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the Shell.Execute action was setting an incorrect error code.
Fix: Fixed a bug where Scrolling Text control's "Load from file" files were being included in the build even when "Specify Now" was selected.
Fix: Fixed a bug where sometimes opening version 7.0 project files containing multi-lingual text would result in an error.
Fix: Fixed a bug were an incorrect error message would be shown at design-time if "Load from file" was selected for a web page on the Scrolling Text screen and the local file did not exist.
Fix: Fixed an incorrect secondary language ID in the Japenese screen language files that would cause the language not to be found at design time.
Fix: Fixed a bug where Ctrl+F was being used for two keyboard shortcuts in the code editor.
Fix: Fixed the language mapping for the Croatian language (a problem with secondary IDs) and added Bosnian to the language map.
Fix: Fixed a bug where building multiple setups at the same time would not work.
Fix: Fixed a bug where 0 was being returned during an unattended build if Setup Factory 8.0 could not open the project file that is being built.
Fix: Fixed a bug where temporary files were being left behind when a build was cancelled.
Fix: Fixed a bug where temporary runtime files were being left behind when a setup was cancelled.
Fix: Fixed a bug where progress bars were not redrawing properly on non-themed operating systems greater than Windows Vista.

8.1.1004.0 - August 28, 2008

Feature: Added the FTP actions plugin.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the Buttons screen would incorrectly display a button in its top left corner.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the "Open last project" startup preference would cause the last project to be opened when using the File | New menu command.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the uninstall executable from previous versions of Setup Factory would sometimes not be overwritten properly.
Fix: Fixed a validation bug on the Resources tab of the Build Settings dialog where you could check the "Use custom icon" option but not specify a file.
Fix: Made file open dialogs resizable.
Fix: Made it so that the text on the Finished publish page can be selected.
Fix: Fixed a problem where download actions behind a proxy would sometimes be cached.
Fix: Fixed a problem where on certain language systems Setup Factory would have problems creating uninstall entries.
Fix: Fixed a bug where blank default text for a ComboBox control would not initially set the session variable attached to it.
Fix: Fixed a bug where double-clicking on project files that contained no files would cause the "Start a New Project" dialog to be displayed.
Fix: Fixed a bug where the ZIP plugin would replace folders with nil in the table returned by Zip.GetContents when not including folder names.

8.1.1000.0 - July 31, 2008

First public release.

Copyright & Trademark Notice

Setup Factory 8.0 is a trademark of Indigo Rose Software Design Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.