Month: September 2013

The user interface for Visual Installer’s editor has been updated and modernized. We have also added more visual themes for the user interface, so you have more styles to choose between. Below we show 3 samples of new visual themes in Visual Installer 2014:

More samples are available on this web page.

Sometimes a program must be run with administrator rights in the system. This gives the program more privileges, which sometimes is necessary to make a program function as expected. In Visual Installer 2014 you can set an installed program to run with administrator privileges in an easy way.

To make an installed program to run with administrator rights you can right-click on the program in Visual Installer’s file list and choose the Run as administrator menu item in the menu that is shown. Thereafter you can select the Run program as administrator option in the dialog box that appears and press OK (see picture below).

You can now send Twitter messages (tweets) directly from Visual Installer. We have added this functionality to Visual Installer 2014.

This is useful for example when you upload an update or upgrade of your software to your website using the built-in FTP function in Visual Installer. In the same time you can inform your customers about the new version of your software (including a short description, version number and a download link) via Twitter.

Below is a screen dump of the Send Message To Twitter dialog box in Visual Installer 2014. This dialog box is used to send tweets to Twitter. You can open this dialog box via the File menu in the Visual Installer editor.

More information about the Twitter function in Visual Installer is available on this web page.

We have added 3 new variables and 2 new script command to Visual Installer 2014. The variables can be used to handle shared files and shared settings, and the script commands can be used to change permissions for folders on the hard disk during the installation process.

THREE NEW VARIABLES
Three new variables were added to Visual Installer 2014. Below they are described briefly:

%SHAREDDOCUMENTS : Can be used to install shared documents.
%PUBLICDIR : Can be used to install shared files (documetns, images, videos etc.).
%APPDATADIR_ALLUSERS : Can be used to install shared settings.

TWO NEW SCRIPT COMMANDS
We have also added two new script commands to Visual Installer 2014. They can be used to change permissions for hard disk folders. Below are the script commands described briefly:

SETPERM : Changes permissions for an existing folder on the hard disk.
XCREATEDIR : Creates a folder on the hard disk with specified permissions.

More detailed information about the script commands is available on this information page and on this blog post. The picture below shows how the SETPERM command can be used to set read, write and execute permissions for a hard disk folder during the setup:

We have now released a new version of our easy-to-use setup tool SamLogic Visual Installer. The name of the new version is SamLogic Visual Installer 2014 and the version number is 10.0. Some new features in the new version are:

– Support for Microsoft Windows 8.1.
– Support for Microsoft Office 2013.
– Support for AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD 2014.
– Updated user interface.
– Permission settings can be changed for hard disk folders during the setup process.
– Installed programs can be set to run with administrator privileges.
– New variables that handles shared files and shared settings are included.
– Support for Twitter (you can send tweets directly to Twitter).
– The ‘Create setup package’ dialog box has been improved (e.g. better support for USB drives).
– New pictures for the setup wizard (installation dialog boxes) has been added.

A detailed list with new features in Visual Installer 2014 is available on this web page.

In the following blog posts we will describe some of the new features in SamLogic Visual Installer 2014 in detail.