InstallBuilder Blog: 2011-06

2011/06/27

We recently released version 7.2.2 of BitRock InstallBuilder. The new release features the following improvements:

Updated documentation
New Search dialog for GUI Builder XML editor
Disabled "Save" and "Save As" menu entries in GUI Builder when no project is loaded
Fixed <addEnvironmentVariable> action not properly registering variables in some scenarios.
Skipped mirror selection page in AutoUpdate tool when just one option is available
New <pathManipulation> action to create absolute paths
Fixed <showPasswordQuestion> not saving the password when accepting the dialog by pressing enter
Improved <firewallTest> rule to also include default Windows firewall
Improved Russian language support
New <createWindowsARPEntry> project setting to allow disabling the creation of the Add Remove Programs entry on windows
Improved <addScheduledTask> action to support latest Windows versions
Added Support for shiftjis encoding on HP-UX in text mode

2011/06/07

We recently released version 7.2.1 of BitRock InstallBuilder. The new release features the following improvements:

Improved Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Argentine Spanish, Slovak, Swedish and Turkish language support
Updated documentation
Speed up installer startup time when being launched from a network drive
New <addWindowsAccountRights> and <removeWindowsAccountRights> actions
Improved administrator user check in HP-UX platform
Improved <abortOnError> and <showMessageOnError> action settings to support variables
Improved minimalWithDialogs mode look and feel
Fixed text not being correctly wrapped in some <choiceParameters> in osx and win32 modes
Improved environment actions on Unix
Fixed <passwordParameter> entries misaligned in some languages
Fixed GUI "Files" tree not being updated when manually deleting <distributionFile> elements from the XML editor
Fixed <globalVariables> action not properly handling case insensitivity