F.68 2.0

Released on February 7th, 2004

F.68.1 Release Notes

• Finnish, Bulgarian and Thai language files are outdated and do not contain all needed translations

F.68.2 Changelog

F.68.2.1 Changes from 1.98

• Multiple languages in one installer support (with RTL support)
• Easier plug-in system
• Modern User Interface (optional)
• LZMA compression which provides installers 20% smaller than bzip2
• Easier paging system (no more .onNextPage, .onPrevPage)
• Components are presented as a tree which allows sub components
• User variables ($VARNAME)
• Icon and UninstallIcon support any color depth and sizes, not just 32x32x16
• CheckBitmap supports any color depth
• Improved large files handling
• License data can be RTF
• CHM documentation for easy browsing
• Better silent support
• New include files for easier scripting: LogicLib, StrFunc and Sections
• Improved plug-ins: InstallOptions, NSISdl and Splash
• New plug-ins: AdvSplash, Banner, BgImage, Dialer, LangDLL, Math, nsExec, StartMenu, System, UserInfo and VPatch
• New and improved utilities: MakeNSISw, NSIS Menu (NSIS.exe), NSIS Update (Bin\NSIS Update.exe) and zip2exe (Bin\zip2exe.exe)
• New commands: !addplugindir, !echo, !ifmacrodef, !ifmacrondef, !verbose, AddBrandingImage, AllowSkipFiles, ChangeUI, CheckBitmap, CreateFont, DirVar, DirVerify, EnableWindow, FileBufSize, FlushINI, GetCurInstType, GetDlgItem, GetInstDirError, IfAbort, IfSilent, InitPluginsDir, InstTypeGetText, InstTypeSetText, LangString, LicenseBkColor, LicenseForceSelection, LicenseLangString, LoadLanguageFile, LockWindow, Page, PageEx, ReserveFile, SectionGetInstTypes, SectionGetSize, SectionSetInstTypes, SectionSetSize, SetBrandingImage, SetCompressionLevel, SetCompressor, SetCompressorDictSize, SetCtlColors, SetCurInstType, SetPluginUnload, SetSilent, ShowWindow, SubSection (replaced by SectionGroup), SubSectionEnd (replaced by SectionGroupEnd), Var, VIAddVersionKey, VIProductVersion and XPStyle
• Removed commands: DirShow, DisabledBitmap, EnabledBitmap and SectionDivider
• All this and a smaller overhead! =)
• A lot more… See below for more information

F.68.2.2 Changes from RC4

• Command line parser ignored any switches after tokens that are not switches
• Last part of the path specified in InstallDir was appended even if selected folder name was the same
• Modern UI 1.70: Improved documentation, new Init custom function for Welcome and Finish page
• Added StrFunc by deguix
• Updated and fixed language files
• Updated, fixed and improved documentation