Version history

Version history

CreateInstall 5.11.0   [ October 10, 2011 ]

Added:
   Command Split & For statement (Full).
   Command Wow64Redirection On/Off (Full).
   Command Split Variable (Light & Full).
   Command Get File Information (Free & Light & Full).
   Option -silent for Uninstaller.
   Predefined variable 'rootdrive' - the drive (like C:) with Windows. 
Improved:
   Shows warning messages instead of some unknown errors.
   Select color control in Project - Dialog Settings and in Background - Show command.
   Added If Condition parameter for the each item in Dialog - Tree command.
   Modified Modify Variable command. Added "Substring" action. 
Fixed:
   Error "Stack overflow" during installation process in some rare situations.
   Error Create CAB with Volume Type: No limit. 
   Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.10.0   [ April 08, 2011 ]

Added:
   Added Update feature. See Update for more details. Now you can use
      'Check for Update' feature in your applications without any problems. 
   Command Dialog - Checkboxes List (Full).
   Command Run JavaScript & VBScript (Full).
   Command Redirect Console Output (Light & Full).
   Command Action After Reboot (Light & Full).
   Menu item Help - Check for Update.
Improved:
   Now you can define variable verdescr, verprod, vercopy for customizing
      VERSION_INFO structure. See Install Script.
   Added 'Code signing parameter' for update.exe on Project - Setup Builder.
   Modified Create Uninstall & Update Exe command. Now it creates 
      update.exe file, if it is required. 
Fixed:
   Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.9.0   [ March 01, 2011 ]

Added:
   Parameter 'Silent command line' on Project - Settings.
   Spanish Help file.
Improved:
   Command Run MSI file. Added 'Uninstall product' checkbox.
   Modified the default manifest with Windows 7 supporting.
Fixed:
   The bug in Global Variables (add and edit values).
   The wrong detection of .NET Framework v4.
   Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.8.0   [ December 01, 2010 ]

Added:
   Code Signing options for the installation and the uninstaller 
      into Project - Setup Builder.
   Command Rename file or folder. (Light & Full)
   Command Substitute Variables in Files. (Light & Full)
   It is possible to move/resize dialog controls. 
      See How to move and resize dialog controls.
Improved:
   Command If statement. Add 'File Exists' and 
      'Directory Exists' parameters.
   Command While statement. Add 'File Exists' and 
      'Directory Exists' parameters.
   Command Dialog - Progress. Added a variable 'Pnofiles' to hide 
      unpacking filenames.
   Command Dialog - Tree. Added a variable 'Tdesc'.
   Command Dialog - User Name & Serial Number. Added 'Userialonly'
      and 'Uuseronly' variables.
   Command Check Requirements. Added '.NET Framework 4' parameter.
   Command Modify Variable. Added 'Duplicate letter' parameter.
   The program remembers the latest project folder. It will be 
      current when you want to open .ci project file 
      the next time.
Fixed:
   Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.7.0   [ June 05, 2010 ]

Added:
   Checkbox 'Administrative rights are not required' on 
      Install Script tab - Install root.
   Command System Information (Screen resolution, Local IP, 
      JRE version, Windows 64x). (Light & Full)
   Command Set File Attributes. (Light & Full)
   Command Read variable from file. (Light & Full)
   Command Dialog - Browser for displaying HTML file or any URL 
      (web-site). It uses Internet Explore engine. (Full)
   Menu Tools - Create CAB (MS Cabinet) File dialog. It can create CAB 
      (MS Cabinet) files.
   Menu Tools - Create URL File dialog. It creates URL files.
   Predefined variable #syslang#. The user's OS system language.
Improved:
   Command Set Variables. Add If Condition parameter.
   Command Dialog - Language. Added a variable 'lang_nosort'.
   If files are not found in some item of Installation Files 
      command then a warning is shown.
Fixed:
   Parameter 'If Condition' could not compile name with digits:
      Nname1, Nname23 && Spar12  

CreateInstall 5.6.0   [ November 14, 2009 ]

Added:
   Command Modify Variable (Light, Full).
   Command Run MSI file (Light, Full).
   Command Decompress CAB file (Full).
   Edit control 'Custom Font' on Project - Dialog Settings page.
Improved:
   Command Register DLL/OCX/TLB. Added 
      'Register by using regsvr32.exe' checkbox.
   Added the following global variables: $year$, $month$,
      $day$, $hour$, $minute$, $second$, $prjpath$.
Fixed:
   Didn't work converting CI v4 Light and Free projects.
   Some minore bugs.

CreateInstall 5.5.0   [ October 22, 2009 ]

Added:
   Command Dialog - Ready To Install. ( Free, Light, Full )
   Command Write variable to file. ( Light, Full )
   Command HTTP GET/POST Request. ( Full )
   Command Import .REG File. ( Full )
   Checkbox 'Include VERSION_INFO resource' (See Install 
      Script - Install root). It is possible to include 
      VERSION_INFO resource into the setup file.
   Topic How to show language-dependent text.
   Chinese Simplified and Japanese languages.
Improved:
   Auto-detection of the version. Now you can specify 
      an executable filename in Projects - Product Details.
      The number of the version is detected automatically
      when the setup is build.
   Command Dialog - User Name & Serial Number. Next button is disable
      until the user fills in the serial number completely.
   Command Check. Added 'Directory Exists' parameter.
Fixed:
   Wrong detection of .NET Framework 3.0 & 3.5 in 
      'Check Requirements' command.
   Some minore bugs.

CreateInstall 5.4.0   [ October 10, 2009 ]

Added:
   Command 'Backup Files'.
   Command 'Create Folders'.
   Command 'Dialog - Backup'.
   Command 'Restore Backup Files'.
Improved:
   The tree of the script can show commands, commands and 
      descriptions or descriptions only. See Tools menu - Preferences.
   Added 'If Condition' to 'Shell Execute' command.
   Added the help file of the Gentee programming language.
Fixed:
   Some minore bugs.

CreateInstall 5.3.0   [ September 25, 2009 ]

Added:
   CreateInstall Light and Free versions were released.
   Checkbox 'Create autorun file (autorun.inf)' on Project-Setup Builder.
   Multi Build menu item to Menu - Setup.
   The Multi Build list of global variables to Project - Setup Builder. 
      It allows you to create some setups from one project. 
   Command line option -v. It allows you to specify global variables
      through the command line parameters. For example,
      cicmd.exe -v "var1=My string;var2=10" projects\myproject.ci
      Variables $var1$ and $var2$ will be substituted in your project.
   Command line option -m<i>. <i> is the number of setups in 
      Multi Build feature.
      cicmd.exe -m2 projects\myproject.ci
Improved:
   Wizard for new projects. Added some parameters in Simple new project.
Fixed:
   Custom global variables were not substituted in the projects.
   Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.2.0   [ September 14, 2009 ]

Added:
   Command 'Download Files'.
   Command 'Run-time Packages'. It includes VB and MSJet, DAO files.
   Command 'Search Files & Folders'.
   Command 'Unpack Files'. It allows to unpack files defined in 
      'Installation Files' command to other additional folders.
Improved:
   Added 'Select Network' item to the command 'Dialog - Settings'.
   Added 'Unpack later' option and 'groupname' variable to 
      'Installation Files' command.  
Fixed:
   Renamed 'Unpack Files' command to 'Installation Files' command. 
   Bug in 'Exit\Reboot' command. The reboot didn't work sometimes.
   The program was crashed during making multi-language setups 
      sometimes.   
   Didn't work 'Minimize' option in 'Shortcut - Create' command.

CreateInstall 5.1.0   [ August 29, 2009 ]

Added:
   Command 'Run JavaScript & VBScript'.
   Command 'Dialog - Username & Serial Number'.
   Command 'Progress Settings'.
   Command 'Dialog - Custom'
Improved:
   Associated .ci project files with ci.exe.
Fixed:
   Multi-language problem with encoding UTF8 to ANSI.
   Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.0.5   [ August 13, 2009 ]

Added:
   The second part of the help file.
Improved:
   Added 'Run As' combobox to 'Run Application' command. 
Fixed:
   Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.0.4   [ August 07, 2009 ]

Added:
   The first part of the help file.
Fixed:
   Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.0.2   [ July 17, 2009 ]

New: The BETA version.