Compiling SF7 script on SF8 IDE

[tigran]

Guys,

I'm planning to upgrade to SF8 because I need its dialog editing functionality, but I can't afford to upgrade other users who use SF7 to build the scripts that I develop.

Can a script with a custom dialog developed on SF8 be compiled in SF7?
Thanks!

[jassing]

Originally Posted by tigran

Can a script with a custom dialog developed on SF8 be compiled in SF7?

Short answer: no

[Lorne]

Setup Factory scripts are interpreted, not compiled.

Although the scripting language itself is compatible between SF7 and SF8, SF7 does not have any of the new custom dialog actions, settings, or events. Any scripts developed for SF8 that use features only available in SF8 will not work in SF7. (It would most likely build without any warnings or errors, however any missing actions would generate errors when the setup.exe is run.)