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CreateInstall 8.11.0   [ June 19, 2024 ]

Added:

• Added parameter "Replace Environment Variables" to the Modify Variable.

Fixed

• Fixed minor bugs.

CreateInstall 8.10.0   [ May 21, 2022 ]

Added:

• Added the "Set DPIAware" checkbox to Project - Dialog Settings.
• Added parameter Serialpsw to dialog Dialog - User and reg. key.
• Added Windows 11 detection.

Fixed

• Fixed minor bugs.

CreateInstall 8.9.0   [ September 25, 2021 ]

Added:

• Added the ability to specify your own manifest files for installation, uninstallation and update.

Fixed

• Fixed minor bugs.

CreateInstall 8.8.0   [ February 5, 2021 ]

Added:

• Added the Check VC++ Redistributable command.

Improved:

• Improved some commands.

CreateInstall 8.7.0   [ April 11, 2020 ]

Added:

• Added the Registry - For Each command.
• Added Logged Users in the Check command.
• Added Host Name in the System Information command.
• Added 'Prior checking of rights' in Install, Uninstall and Update Script.

Improved:

• Improved some commands.

Fixed:

• Some little bugs.

CreateInstall 8.6.2   [ March 07, 2020 ]

Added:

• Licread parameter to the Dialog - License command.

Improved:

• Improved some commands.

CreateInstall 8.5.1   [ August 08, 2019 ]

Added:

• Added Comment field for list items.
• Added the INI File - Format command (CI Full).
• Added the Send Keystroke command (CI Full).

Improved:

• Improved over 20 commands.

Fixed:

• Some little bugs.

CreateInstall 8.4.2   [ July 19, 2018 ]

Added:

• Added the Get letter of drives command (CI Full).
• Added the Get drive space command (CI Full).
• Added the Catch Exit command (CI Full).

Improved:

• Improved language files.
• Added #osreleaseid# (Windows 10 release ID) to the predefined variables.
• Added #osupbuildrev# (Windows 10 Update Build Revision) to the predefined variables.
• The "Dialog - Setup Path", free spaces text will red color if there is not enough free disk space or the path is invalid.

Fixed:

• When the dialog window or controls in the dialog window are resized in percent.
• The remaining download time is incorrect or inaccurate if the download is paused at the beginning.
• The method size2str, sometimes returns an inaccurate value, after the decimal point.

CreateInstall 8.3.9   [ May 07, 2018 ]

Added:

• Added replacing environemnt variables %NAME% in values of global variables $name$.

Improved:

• Improved about 20 commands.
• Added support of Unicode in commands - read/write variable to file.

Fixed:

• Some little bugs.

CreateInstall 8.2.0   [ February 03, 2018 ]

Added:

• Updated French and Chinese languages.

Improved:

• Added Lictext and Readtext parameters in Dialog - License and Dialog - Readme commands.
• Added result variable result7z in Decompress 7z command.
• Added 'Delete only empty subkey' checkbox in Registry - Delete command.

Fixed:

• Some little bugs.

CreateInstall 8.1.0   [ October 07, 2017 ]

Added:

• Added -mFrom-To command line parameter for specifying multibuild setups. For example, -m1-4.

Improved:

• Improved Modify variable, Parse text, Get File Info commands.
• Added Result variable in Register DLL/OCX/TLB command.

Fixed:

• Some little bugs.

CreateInstall 8.0.0   [ March 12, 2017 ]

Added:

• Now CreateInstall can compress files over 4GB.

Improved:

• Update the decompressor of 7z files to the latest version.
• Added Result variable to the Download Files command.

Fixed:

• Some little bugs.

CreateInstall 7.8.0   [ November 21, 2016 ]

Added:

• The command Copy Files List (Light version) has been added.

Improved:

• Improved Check, Replace within files, Replace text, Modify variable commands.

Fixed:

• Some little bugs.

CreateInstall 7.7.2   [ November 07, 2016 ]

Added:

• 'Allow multiple instances' checkbox in Install Script.

Improved:

• Message and Dialog - Settings commands.
• Added options Pdownloads and Pspeed for displaying download speed in Dialog - Progress.

Fixed:

• Some little bugs.

CreateInstall 7.6.0   [ October 10, 2016 ]

Added:

• Command Timeout has been added (full version).

Improved:

• Added If Condition in Create service.
• Added Additional parameters in Register C# and VB.NET DLL.

Fixed:

• Some little bugs.

CreateInstall 7.5.0   [ July 16, 2016 ]

Added:

• Command Dialog - Slideshow has been added (full version).

Improved:

• Added UTF-8 encoding checkbox in HTTP GET/POST Request, Insert text into file, Delete lines from file, INI file – Insert text, INI File - Delete.

Fixed:

• Some little bugs.

CreateInstall 7.4.0   [ March 7, 2016 ]

Added:

• The Command-Line Parameters command (CI Light and Full).

Improved:

• Added the support of the https protocol in the Download Files and HTTP GET/POST request commands.
• Added If File Exists field in the Download Files command.
• Added If Statement field in the Shortcut - Create command.

Fixed:

• Some little bugs.

CreateInstall 7.3.0   [ February 2, 2016 ]

Improved:

• Now you can specify images for items in Dialog - Tree command.
• Added a detection feature of Windows Product type in System Information command.
• There are a lot of improvements in approximately 15 commands.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 7.2.0   [ November 26, 2015 ]

Added:

• Command Sleep.
• Command Register .NET DLL.

Improved:

• Command Modify Variable. Added the noutf options in Calculate Hash.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 7.1.7   [ November 8, 2015 ]

Added:

• Added the $ver$ variable for Output Folder and Executable Filename fields.
• Added predefined variables osspmajor and osspminor for getting Service Pack version.

Improved:

• Added the 'UTF-8 encoding' checkbox in Embedded Files, Write variable to file, Read variable from file.
• Added 'If Condition' in Check and Check Requirements commands.
• Added the detection of Office 16 in the Get Application Information command.

Fixed:

• The bug of registering fonts on Windows 10.
• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 7.1.0   [ August 22, 2015 ]

Added:

• Search in the commands of the scripts.
• Command Notice
• Windows 10 detection.

Improved:

• Improved over 10 commands.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 7.0.14   [ April 25, 2015 ]

This is a complete Unicode version. Now CreateInstall creates unicode setups.

Improved:

• Working with VERSION_INFO structure.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 6.4.0   [ January 23, 2015 ]

Added:

• The console version of CreateInstall builder cicmdcon.exe.
• Command INI File - Delete

Improved:

• Command Add to Add/Remove List. Added the 'Create for current user' checkbox.
• Command Modify variable. Added 'Encoding to UTF-8'.
• Command Shell Execute. Added the 'Run as administrator' checkbox.
• Added 'isadmin' variable. It equals 1 when the setup run with administrative rights.
• You can assign 'hidefiles' variable to 1, if you want to hide folder and filenames during the installation process. It can increase the decompression speed when you have a lot of small files.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 6.3.0   [ June 25, 2014 ]

Added:

• Update Script tab. You can create scripts for the update program like installation or uninstallation scripts.
• You can specify the size of the font for CreateInstall interface in Tools - Preferences.

Improved:

• Command If Statement. You can check if the setup has been run with some command-line parameter.
• Command Dialog - Settings. You can specify If Condition for the each item. Radiobutton are automatically grouped if there are items of another type between them (if Sautoradio=1).
• Command Modify variable. You can calculate the MD5 hash for a string or a variable.
• Command Calculate Hash. Teh result value can be in the upper case.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 6.2.1   [ March 13, 2014 ]

Added:

• Command Global Environment - Append Path (full version).
• Command Global Environment - Delete Path (full version).
• Command Delete Lines from file (Light version).
• Command INI File - Insert Text (Light version).
• Command Insert Text into File (Light version).
• Command Calculate Hash (full version).

Improved:

• Command Create service. Added the "Don't run service" checkbox.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 6.1.0   [ October 12, 2013 ]

Added:

• CreateInstall Setup Extractor (all versions).
• The capability of compressing the created installation into a .zip file has been added (all versions).
• The global variable $prjname$ - the name of the project file.

Improved:

• Command Message. Added If Condition.
• Command Get application information (Java Runtime Environment).

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 6.0.0   [ August 25, 2013 ]

Added:

• Quick CreateInstall application which has a simple interface and allows you to create installations quickly (All version).

Improved:

• Command Copy Files. Added the 'Show error message if files have not been found' checkbox.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.19.0   [ May 17, 2013 ]

Added:

• Command Decompress 7z file (Full version).
• Command Replace Text (Full version).
• Predefined variable originaluser. The name of the user, who launched the installation. If the user doesn't have administrator rights, this name is different from "username".

Improved:

• Command Get Application Information. MS Access was added.
• All Registry commands. If HKEY_CURRENT_USER is specified then HKEY_CURRENT_USER of original user is used.
• New features for the command Global Environment - Set Value.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.18.0   [ April 11, 2013 ]

Added:

• Command Get Application Information (Full & Light version).
• Command Parse Text (Full version).

Improved:

• Command Check Requirements
• Command Dialog - Settings.
• New features for local variables. See Local variables.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.17.1   [ February 25, 2013 ]

Added:

• Command Create Scheduled Task (Full version)
• Command Delete Scheduled Task (Full version)
• Command Share & Permissions (Full version)
• Command Decompress ZIP file (Full & Light version)

Improved:

• Commands Dialog - License and Dialog - Readme. You can show any external file during the installation. For example, you can distribute individual license files near setup.exe and show their text.
• Command Shortcut - Create. You can set a flag so the shortcut runs as administrator.

CreateInstall 5.16.0   [ January 02, 2013 ]

Added:

• View of project settings and commands as an HTML file. You can view project settings and commands in a browser and print them.
• Menu item Examples – you can familiarize yourself with completed example projects.

Improved:

• Command Dialog-Settings. You can define the field for input of a password. The Button element has been added.
• Command Import REG file. 'Use 64-bit regedit.exe' checkbox has been added.
• Command Dialog – Language. The variables lang_nosort, lang_nonative and lang_[Language name] have been added.
• Command Dialog – Progress. The Continue button is not shown if the option of automatic closure of the window after completion of the process is checked.
• Command Modify Variable. The possibility to get the path to a file, its name and extension [Get Filename] has been added.
• Command Close Application. The possibility to specify objects to be closed as a list has been added.
• Command If Statement (full version). The possibility of processing Else.
• Commands If Statement & While Statement. A checkbox to negate the condition had been added.

Fixed:

• Deletion of temporary files after interruption of the installation by the user.
• A message about an error is shown if the source directory doesn't exist during execution of the command Copy Files & Folders.

CreateInstall 5.15.2   [ October 24th, 2012 ]

Added:

• Command Run Uninstaller (Full & Light version) .
• Command Temporary Files (all versions).

Improved:

• Command Dialog - Settings. New elements were added: Link and Image. Also you can now deploy controls in one row.
• Command System Information. Added, obtaining RAM size.
• If installation icons contain frames with sizes greater than 64x64, then those frames are ignored.
• If, while packaging files and conducting a search using wildcards, nothing was found, then in the warning window you can choose “Yes to all” and all following warnings will be ignored.
• Predefined variables. Variables added: shortdate and shorttime.

Fixed:

• If the logo at the top of dialog box was too wide, then the description text in the title was covered by the logo.
• Error in the Condition field if any word in the row started with upper case S or N. For example, Nmyvar == "This is a String"

CreateInstall 5.14.1   [ September 29th, 2012 ]

Added:

• Command Get Original User (Full, Light, Free).
• Command Run As Original user (Full, Light, Free) .
• Command Embedded files (Full).
• Option Self-Deleting Setup File (Full, Light, Free).

Improved:

• Command Check Requirements.
• Predefined variables. The variable 'oswindows' - added Windows 8.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.13.0   [ August 22, 2012 ]

Added:

• The unpacking filter function for installation files. How to specify a filter for installation files
• It is possible to specify a custom dialog function for Next button where you can check if the entered parameters are valid. How to define a custom dialog function

Improved:

• The command Dialog - Setup Path. Added a special variable Pathvar for specifying the name of the result variable. By default, it equals "setuppath".

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

CreateInstall 5.12.0   [ June 12, 2012 ]

Added:

• How to disable any control to How to move and resize dialog controls
• The variable DNocancel in Variables of dialogs
• Commands While statement and If statement. Comparison Version greater and Version Less for versions like XX.XX.XX.XXX.
• Variable os64 - equals 1 on Windows 64-bits.

Improved:

• Command Check. If you use Window substring then the variable #wincaption# equals the caption of the fund window.
• Added the checkbox 'Access a 64-bit key' to Registry commands.
• Command Dialog - Setup Path. You can specify the custom Registry key for storing of the installation path.
• Command Installation Files. Added additional settings: password - the protection of files, unlog - custom uninstall log mode, unlogfile - custom file log mode.
• Command Unpack Files. Added additional settings: unlog - custom uninstall log mode, unlogfile - custom file log mode.
• Command Uninstall Log Mode. Added "On (Mode 1)" and "On (Mode 2)" - files are added to the uninstall log file even if they are overwritten or skipped.

Fixed:

• Some minor bugs.

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.
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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 ]lang_nosort

• If files are not found in some item of Installation Files command then a warning is shown.

Fixed:

• Parameter '

CreateInstall 5.6.0  

Added:

• Command Modify Variable (Light, Full).
• Command Run MSI file (Light, Full).
• Command Decompress CAB file (Full).
• Edit control '

Improved:

• Command Register DLL/OCX/TLB. Added '
• Added the following global variables: $year$, $month$, $day$, $hour$, $minute$, $second$, $prjpath$.

Fixed:

• Didn'
• Some minore bugs.

CreateInstall 5.5.0  

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 -mi. 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'. variable to

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