Installer Maker versions

Economy-x-Talk's Installer Maker is the perfect tool for RAD programmers and everyone else who wants to distribute software or any other collection...
1.8
May 20, 2021
1.7
Review
1.6
May 20, 2011
Review

What's new

v1.7
- better feedback about progress while building the installer
- the display of file icons has been disabled on PowerMacs
- correct theme colour is used in Uninstaller
- improved icon display in a few error dialog windows
- On Mac, the drop area on the Files tab shows the icon of the file or folder dropped onto it
- improved visual transition between tabs
- resource forks are now enabled, which implies support for old classic fonts on OSX (this feature is currently being tested)
- small German language corrections
- the file "installer test.txt" no longer appears on the desktop
- the Choose Folder button on the Files tab no longer displays an icon but the icon is now always shown correctly in the drop area
- Mac OS X application packages can now run as post-install scripts
- the loud sound playing when a file was dropped on the drop area has been removed
- we have removed the reduntant spaces from the button labels
- the default text that appears if no license condictions have been set at all but the license screen hasn't been set to be skipped, has been restored
- the installer is now able to print the license conditions
- compatibility with Revolution 4.x has been improved, avoiding an error that sometimes appeared after building the installer
- pictures on the tab Appearance>Picture no longer become invisible when selected
- an error potentially occurring when Installer Maker opens has been corrected
- errors potentially occurring in the installer on a Mac while opening the Read Me file are now reported immediately after the attempt to open the file
- German title "Installierung" changed into "Installation"
- Installer Maker tries to provide more info when a file can't be found while the installer is being built (both the internal file name and the actual file path)
- The Open Read Me File and Start Application buttons are now active by default, if the respective files are available
- Corrections to the Italian language feature and several small modifications to make things work more smoothly
- We have reworked the interface, particularly by removing the tab bar and adding a completely new tool bar
- The ability to run scripts and applications, before and after running the installer, has been added; supported are: Revolution/LiveCode/MetaCard stacks, AppleScript (.scpt) files, Visual Basic Script (.vbs) files, Mac OS X applications (.app) and Windows executables (.exe)
- Commandkey-1 to Commankey-5 are handled 'slightly' better in the IDE
- In de Edit tab, files could sometimes not be removed; this bug has been fixed
- on Mac OS X, the installer log is now UTF8 encoded
- this version is meant to be compatible with Lion (please report any problems)
- we disabled arrow key navigation in the Installer Maker window because it was confusing
- small language improvements in German installers
- we have added an optional default license text (English only for now)
- auto-discovery of Read Me or License File if included with your standalone
- Read Me files can now also be in UTF16 or HTML format
- Option to automatically add an icon to the Mac OS X dock
- A new Catalan language option has been added
- The Exit button wasn't localized and this has been fixed
- If a folder or file can't be written due to lack of admin rights, an error message is displayed
- Many adjustments and bug fixes to the Scripts tab
- Automatically created shortcuts (aliases) could be broken on Windows and have been fixed
- The installer no longer complains that script could not be executed if no pre- or post-install scripts have been defined
- Italian language option
- Several small bug fixes
- French is now included as a language option
- The installation log is written to the console (Mac OS X only)
- A few minor language issues have been corrected in the Icelandic version of the installer

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