InstallAware 2005 Second Edition contains the following new features and
enhancements for developing Windows Installer setups.
IDE
The code view now features in-place editing. Simply begin typing at any
script line, and a drop-down combo box appears with a list of commands
that start with the letters you have used. Use auto-complete or scroll
through the list of commands to automatically insert a new command into
your setup script.
The code view also features code folding. You may define custom code
folding regions and collapse them to make your setup code more
organized.
The visual views have been updated for more intuitive operation. The
Features visual view now lets you sort the features that comprise your
setup. The Files and Registry visual views have also been updated to
allow editing the properties of multiple items simultaneously.
You may now disable filtering of files and registry keys by application
features.
Setups which contain a very large amount of files and registry keys may
now be loaded and edited in the IDE very rapidly.
Visual browse dialogs are now provided with most scripting commands that
reference files.
Building setups with best compression now requires less memory. The
build progress dialog has been redesigned and offers more information,
along with animations that illustrate the current build phase.
A new CD Autorun template is available for creating autorun programs for
your CD based installations. The new CD Autorun template also
illustrates how to build custom scripts for specialized tasks.
Template and wizard generated setup scripts now have better handling for
error conditions that occur during pre-requisite installations.
Tools and Libraries
There are several new project converters that convert setups developed
in other installation environments, such as Wise Installation System, to
InstallAware.
Project samples are available which provide pre-built setup scripts that
cater to specific needs, such as on-line user registration as an
integral part of your software installation.
The command line build tool and automation interface now support
specifying package passwords and languages on the command line.
A new Localization Wizard is available.
A new Group Policy Wizard is available, which enables you to use your
InstallAware installations with Group Policy / Active Directory
deployment.
An updated Setup Decompressor is available, which automates the process
of decompressing setups to make them more compressible when included
with InstallAware setups.
Setup Engine
The setup engine now allows components to be defined dynamically at
run-time. This enables the creation of setups which determine their
feature sets on-the-fly.
You may now create password protected setups encrypted using 256 bit
strong AES encryption.
Multi-lingual setups are now available, letting you choose and override
the setup language at run-time.
Web media block names are no longer limited to 8 characters. You may use
long descriptive names for your web media blocks, as long as they remain
valid file names.
You may now build light mode setups that exclude the setup runtime for
compacting multiple nested installations.
Setup User Interface
You may now reference properties of other controls when defining
intra-dialog relations. For instance, you may disable the Next button on
a dialog unless the two sets of password fields on the dialog match.
Previously only hard-coded field comparisons were available.
The new Return from Dialog action lets buttons or similar dialog
controls return custom values from a modally shown dialog. Previously
only three return values were available (Back, Next, Cancel).
Memo and RichEdit controls may now be made editable, and write their
values to variables.
New Transparency and AlphaBlend properties are available for setup
dialogs.
New Scripting Commands
The Check Disk Space command checks for available (or total) disk space
at a given path or network share.
The Code Folding Region command defines a collapsable code folding region.
The Extract 7Zip Archive command extracts a stand alone 7Zip archive, an
InstallAware setup.exe file, or a web media block file.
The Find All Files command searches for files in a given path matching a
wildcard pattern.
The Replace String command replaces occurences of a substring inside a
string.
The Run Light Mode Setup command runs an InstallAware setup that has
been built without InstallAware runtime files.
The Set Component Space command overrides the default space requirements
for a component.
The Terminate with Exit Code command lets you return a custom exit code
when ending an installation.
Updated Scripting Commands
The Extract Path command now has a new mode which replaces double
back-slashes in path values with single ones. Note that all InstallAware
commands automatically do this for you whenever a path you pass to them
contains a double back-slash.
The Get System Settings command has been updated to report on the screen
DPI setting.
The Mathematics command has been updated to provide new bitwise,
character conversion, and random number operations.
The .NET Framework command has been updated to allow slipstreamed
installations of the .NET Framework version 1.1 including Service Pack 1.
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