Forum: Visual Patch 1.0

I'm in the process of evaluating VisualPatch. We use Installshield to create releases here and planning to use VisualPatch to create incremental patches (which contain only the differences) If I use VisualPatch to build incremental releases, how can I ensure that my users will install all the...

Can I set up a system so that I each time I create a patch, I can chooose between binary and full history patches? E.g. for release 18.0.1 I want to do a full history patch (entirely replace several .dlls) but for release 18.0.2 I only changed 1 line of code that affected just 1 .exe so I just...

Hi, I currently use AMS5, SUF7, and TU. I am looking at adding VP to the arsenal :yes :D . I'm wondering how VP works when AMS5 resource files are renamed upon build. When resources are changed and the project is rebuilt, I'm assuming that the resources are not mapped in exactly the same...

I want my patch to check if the app is running and if so i want to tell the user to close the app for the patch to install. i dont want the patch to be able to go any further until the app is closed. How can i do that?

Hi I am already an AMS5 and SUF6 (and soon SUF7) user, and i am now evaluating Visual Patch. VB6 is my prefered dev language. I read the help file and the user manual, but didnt find a good explanation about the following: Once i created my VB6 project, i use SUF or the package and...

What I want to do I want to read out data from the registry and then "copy" it to a new entry in the registry: Example of the problem: a) I want to read out "Test project 1.0.0/Settings/COMPortSetting" from the registry. This is simply done from the Registry/Variable window by requesting the...

Hi I'm just finishing a quite complex patch. Everything works exept something that should be really simple - I want to delete some old shortcuts that aren't needed after the patch update. I've tried, due to me, all possible ways to get it to work. But it doesn't. I'm using winXP pro by the...

Visual Patch has a cool new web site: http://www.visualpatch.com Hope everyone likes it! :) Corey Milner Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

I have an application that is updated almost monthly - and there are currently many versions in the field. I want to set-up a Full-History Patch, but I don't have the file information for every single release. Is there a way to update all version to the current version if I do not have the...

I have a install package built with setup factory where a user can optionally select one or more modules to install. Assume that over time, I have modifed at least one file in each of the optional modules and I need to identify key files in each of the modules to correctly determine the version. ...

After playing around with the demo of TrueUpdate, I just purchased: - TrueUpdate - Visual Patch We have TrueUpdate working with paid subscriptions (ASP pages) by downloading a single file.... works great! TrueUpdate performs the checks to see whether or not to download a file. From there, I...

Is there any way to get the current release number programatically? I see %ProductVer% gives you what is manually entered in the General Settings tab and that %VersionFoundName% gives you what was on the system, but what about the current one running? Thanks. Ed

I'm writing a loader application that detects if a patch has been downloaded, executes if it has, and then launches the application. Is there a Windows API call I can use to detect if the patch has completed? I see an "irpatch.exe" process is created, can I just watch that? Thanks! Ed

I have many releases in my VP project. The last release is 4.02.00. The problem is VP is not including an EXE file included in the release 4.01.01, but not included in release 4.02.00. After release 4.01.01, I have other releases (4.01.02, 4.01.03, ..., until 4.01.08) Any idea?

I am using VP to update a program installed with SF. The question is: If the update add new files to installation made with SF, then, the uninstaller of SF, will remove him? If not, I can do anything? Thanks.

Hi, We have 3 features associated with our software.User has to choose the features they want to install.When we install our software we will create 3 registry entries, where registry1 stores path for feature1, registry2 stores path for feature2 and registry3 stores path for feature3. All...

Hi, I have created Visual Patch project where i have 2 releases v1.0.0.0 and v2.0.0.0. I have to create a patch such that it should search registry and locate previously installed path and should copy the updated files in that location. Here i am able to locate previous installation...

Hello folks. I have been running into a rather odd behaviour with Visual Patch. I have two versions of my software, release 1 and 2 let's say. I create an update file using visual patch. I run this update against a set of release 1 files. The update runs successfully. It adds files that we...

I am testing the Visual Patch demo. I cannot find answers to the following on web site, Help or User Guide: 1. Does VP support rollback? 2. Does VP support Error Logging? 3. Does VP support patch failure notification to the calling process? Thanks,

I need to shut down several applications before they can be patched and i did a .cmd file to do that. My intent was to run it minimized as dos boxes are not all that pretty to look at, but whatever I choose it is always run in "normal" mode. Anybody else run into this and is there a remedy for...

How are dlls and active x controls updated through visual patch. It seems I am missing something here, but I thought some dlls have to be reregistered and not just overwritten. In addition, if the update of software has new ocx controls (not in the previous release), can VP install and register...

I created a patch using Visual Patch. I customized the language and also the image on the various screens. However, when the patch is running, at a certain point a progress screen is being displayed. This screen is still in English and has the default image. I can't find the screen and so i can't...

I just want to overwrite my old files with my new files that are in my release folder. That is the whold point to the visual patch!!!!!!