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[Brito]

Hi everyone, this is the topic where new beta releases will be posted based on wb067 - please be aware that this topic is only destined to discuss winbuilder.exe - for stable builds it is recomended to use the latest published editions or use the lateste beta available here after reading the posts and feedback from other members to ensure things work as supposed.

Don't forget to add your opinion about the latest beta on this topic to keep all issues on one place..


Beta 15 (2007-April-3)

- When a user saves ftp settings with an empty path - the program will add at least the root folder as start location ( / )
- IniRead has been modified - If an INI key is not found on a file then it will output an empty variable instead of an error message
- Fixed the function to upload and create web servers - two errors debugged, first was the lack on correct details when logging in, the second was time-out too short (wasn't working on slow dial up modems)
- Bug fixed the extra \ that appeared on section name when uploading individual scripts, causing them to not be displayed as available on the download center


 WinBuilder068_Beta15.zip   791.21KB   655 downloads

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Beta 14 (2007-Mar-30)
- Fixed bug on right-click source code menu - selecting DirMove would place a DirCopy command
- Further improvements on the FTP section
- Some more UI language bugs fixed
- Modified FTP section - the only place to set user settings is on the respective settings tab - all FTP connections share the same settings (individual script upload, ftp client, new webserver tab)
- Fixed a bug wich prevented script.project files of displaying the correct version, author, contact and credits
- Credits box won't accept enter key to prevent unwanted end of line.
- Removed entry !#1274 from language list
- Fixed a language bug on setvar
- Fixed a bug when pressing the right-click button on the main window
- Fixed language tool tip bug on script editor - instead of show "Remove logo" displayed "Visit this page"
- Added a \ on the path when uploading single scripts
- Removed the right-click option to upload a script to avoid conflicts with the option available from the script interface.
- Fixed a bug wich kept the upload progress bar on the script interface visible when the upload was aborted by errors
- Users can now download files from the download center, use the web tab and then return to the download center without reseting the connection


 WinBuilder068_Beta14.zip   791.38KB   792 downloads

md5 checksum: c7f1188a780138185ad66edde86d9b5c WinBuilder068-Beta14.zip

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Beta 13 (2007-Mar-17)

- added more support to allow internal program messages to also be translated
- fixed bug that forced lower case on variables like %projectdir% (should also fix the ftp folder create in lower cases)
- modified the "simple" function to find files to support vista and ignore system and hidden files wich are protected.
- added spaces on some labels to ensure that they are displayed correctly under vista
- reverted the load hive procedures to use a shell wrapper around reg.exe - to ensure that hives are loaded correctly under vista with administrative permissions
- Added vistape.boot-land.net/project to the list of available servers
- Fixed the ping command, the previous method was not working under some conditions
- Merged FTP client tab with the upload tab, creating a set of 3 tabs to allow using common definitions when uploading files
- modified fonts to support other languages
- Increased the size of tab titles to make them more easier to navigate
- Fixed the blank tab on the web tab when first acessing the page (delay was cause by a ping to the host to see if it is available before navigating)

 WinBuilder068_Beta13.zip   792.08KB   606 downloads

md5: 25ca3622aa0b0ffae99fe414461ef117 WinBuilder068-Beta13.zip

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Beta 12 (2007-Mar-12)

- Tool section button can show/hide respective tools tab
- Added an icon next to the source description on the source wizard
- Modified progress tab - added the name of the script author and a few small UI changes
- Modified error icon displayed on logs to a red X to make them easily identifiable
- Added UI language support - an editor was also placed on the tools tab and will write text files to projects\tools\languages

 WinBuilder068_Beta12.zip   816.56KB   531 downloads


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Beta 11 (2007-Mar-07)

- Added safety ping check to homepage adress to handle situations when wb is not online
- Added the same safety check to the download center
- Added a "Source Wizard" - safety check and validation that ensures that specific files are found inside the source before continuing the project build.
- Moved the Options tab to the tools section
- Moved the Paths to the last tab position


 WinBuilder068_beta11.zip   808.82KB   547 downloads


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Beta 10 (2007-Mar-04)

- Added support for Enter key inside web browser, theme styles and automatic form filling.
- Added display of author name while downloading
- Added safety check when downloading files from the download center - first it's downloaded to extension .web then it is renamed as original file if passes MD5 integrity check
- Improved the safety check when trying to upload a single script without valid configuration or not connected to the ftp account
- Added the individual file upload progress bar when uploading a new web server
- Removed the previously added wbChat from beta 9 - wb's homepage chat is a good replacement for the moment
- Added "Stop" button for individual file uploads, also fixed the respective progress bar
- Added the option to remember last position of the main window - this option will be ignored if no winbuilder.ini file is found (to keep the root folder clean)
- Some more cosmetics changes on the download center


 WinBuilder068_beta10.zip   803.17KB   505 downloads


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Beta 9 (2007-Mar-03)

- Added a "nudge" when user presses "Play" with an empty source dir.
- Added option to choose if log.html was opened by browser after being created
- Modified icon for Download Center
- Added wbChat - a small tool to chat around with other wb users on the LAN
- Modified Play, Tools and Refresh button from main window
- Added "Stop" button on web browser

 WinBuilder068_beta9.zip   806.23KB   473 downloads

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Beta 8 (2007-Fev-28)

- Added a web browser based on the IE engine
- Created a wb homepage on boot.land.net with contents to help new users
- Modified behavior to start the web tab instead of the download tab when no scripts are found
- Modified FileCopy/DirCopy to ensure that the target dir is created if not already existent
- Started implementing an external page for members to login and quickly view new topics/replies amongst other posting on boot-land.net - good to make it easier to keep up to date with news.
- Added support for %projectDir% and %script%

 WinBuilder068_Beta8.zip   784.3KB   487 downloads

70c4009f38f2a724d5396fae7104777c WinBuilder068-Beta8.zip

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Beta 7 (2007-Fev-24)

- File sorting is no longer dependable on NTFS, meaning that it is compatible with other compatible file systems like fat32
- Fixed a bug that prevented files (not scripts) to be downloaded
- Added the quantity of downloaded bytes while downloading files
- Fixed the progress bar that follows the download of the current file
- Added a small animated image on the download center
- Added "IniMerge" INI command to merge the differences from one inifile into another, syntax: IniMerge,"UpdatedIniFile","InifileToUpdate"
- Main window position has been changed to default windows position

MD5 check: 3811d6ef47d770eb47e853b65710e771 WinBuilder.zip

 WinBuilder068_Beta7.zip   770.54KB   524 downloads

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Beta 6 (2007-Fev-13)

- small bugfix when starting up with no winbuilder.ini and adding the list of predefined web servers

f15b962c33948bf660f43a22a0953329 WinBuilder068-beta6.zip

 WinBuilder068_beta6.zip   740.14KB   622 downloads

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Beta 5

- Added support for multiple servers and predefined server list when no updates.ini is available
- Added option to skip the FTP upload test when typing new ftp locations
- Improved significantly the readbility of index.html using CSS - also reduced overall code size
- Added support for automatically creating new webservers along with upload
- Added new button on the interface to quickly upload script


MD5 checksum: 315e2983f7da604d242d5bdd6154a72d WinBuilder068-beta5.zip

 WinBuilder068_beta5.zip   740.13KB   537 downloads


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Beta 4


- Moved the web path box to the update center
- Added files remaining to download while downloading
- Source folder input box will "flash" a few times if source is empty and user presses "Play"
- overall minor bugfixes

MD5 checksum: 5d5dbe811be7ff9e47065f2cae36beca WinBuilder068-Beta4.zip

 WinBuilder068_Beta4.zip   737.02KB   512 downloads


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Beta 3

- "Create new updates.ini" tab was renamed to "Upload Config", allowing to create updates.ini/index.html files and add needed values for uploading scripts using the file tranfer protocol
- A few more bugfixes on the download method, safer behavior.
- In the middle of the download process it is already possible to close the application, aborting safely the download.
- updates.ini and index.html are completely independent from fixed web paths using using relative web links - meaning that it can be placed/moved to anywhere as long as the project/script found on subfolders are moved as well.
- updates.ini and index.html are now created and placed inside the projects folder - making it easier to just drap and drop everything on the new web location
- it is possible to preview how index.html will look when uploaded - just open/doubleclick it from disk to see the result
- Added WinBuilder's License Agreement inside WinBuilder.exe and a button to view it on the Options tab - no more extra files needed to distribute, wb can now be distributed as standalone exe.
- Backup tool - create button will warn whenever the projects folder is not removed as specified by the option to remove this folder after creating a backup
- Removed the right-click option to remove projects from the main window
- When pressing the Play button without selecting a valid source - the Source path edit box will flash a few times as a reminder of the need to input a value
- Added right-click option on the main window to upload scripts straight into the web server.

MD5 checksum: c7abd7610cc2dea376938719c089d077 WinBuilder068-Beta3.zip


 WinBuilder068_Beta3.zip   736.29KB   514 downloads


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Beta 2

- Pressing enter when typing the web server adress on the options tab will act as pressing the save button
- download method rewritten and improved - now it won't seem to be hanged while downloading, stop button also aborts download process.
- Removed the "Open" button on the main window since it wasn't very usable - now wb will look on inside the first folder on the projects folder for script.project files and add them as projects automatically
- Section [projects] inside winbuilder.ini has become obsolete


MD5 checksum: 8d963926280b53192cdf46f344fdc7f7 WinBuilder068_beta2.zip

 WinBuilder068_beta2.zip   734.63KB   517 downloads


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Beta 1

- Renamed Download Center to Updates Center to add the upload service
- Modified the links menu on the options tab to include a link to VistaPE and Winimize
- Corrected the ExtractAndRun template from the right-click menu on the source editor
- Clicking on folders from treeview will display sub folders and files inside it
- Added an ftp client on the tool box
- Filecopy command will create a new directory if the target dir doesn't exist already


MD5: 5aa6245420bef757620a8559182d570a WinBuilder068_beta1.zip

 WinBuilder068_beta1.zip   712.62KB   526 downloads

Edited by Nuno Brito, 03 April 2007 - 11:51 AM.

[Brito]

Now whenever a user selects a folder, it is possible to browse other folders and scripts from here. The FTP client is the first step into a fully automated process to upload scripts - didn't added a full upload and download support for the time being.

Please let me know how it works - still need to test it under proxies to see the result.

[TheHive]

Now whenever a user selects a folder, it is possible to browse other folders and scripts from here.

I didnt get this until I saw it.
So if you click on one of the main Project root folders within Winbuilder you will see a visual look inside showing all scripts or subfolders. Very easy and fast to navigate thru it .

WOW! THATS GREAT!

[TheHive]

First time launch of this new beta is faster when first starting. Almost forgot that the Final took a while to come up but this one doesnt seem to have that problem.

Some of the scripts need to be update from the LiveXP Project to work properly.
When building and iso and booting up PeNetwork Manger still has the problem of not showing the Network Device card for Qemu.

And as Ove brought up the topic about ShellWM is not working properly as it did before. I think he pointed how to fix this in his Explorer thread.

The Display Properties script needs to be setup to work properly by default. The Screensaver does not work properly.

[HighwayStar]

I have tested new filecopy command. It seems work right.
Yet another question: Why I can't write comments in [interface] section. When I try it I've got errors when script GUI loads.
And It's will be very usefull to have something like statusbar with current element coordinates and size in GUI creation window. I need it to make nice interfaces with buttons and labels in straight line.

[smiley]

I have (as usual) some suggestions for the next beta:
-When using the update center, winbuilder seems to freeze although it working. So the stop button can't work.
-You can also add a label to show the size of downloaded files and how much is remaining.
-Process section in script.project doesn't work
-Right click in a project ->Run script, doesn't work
-When download a project, it must add itshelf in winbuilder.ini or any other variables that it need

About the changes , they are GREAT!!!

Thanks for this beta !!


John

[Brito]

Thanks for the all quick feedback will work on the suggestions and try to present a new beta within one/two days max.

Is the ftp client working out as supposed?

[Brito]

Beta 2 is available for testing!

I hope this time the problem experienced by medEvil regarding downloads is finally fixed, tomorrow will also try it on proxies that require username/password to see how it handles these connections - if needed a box for proxy settings will be added.

Sorry for not adding yet the registry enumeration Peter - it's the next thing I'll work on..

Adding new project just got simpler - add the project on the projects folder and it's done - wb will search for every script.project file on the first level of sub-folders.

That's all for now, hope you like it..

[carla m]

This Beta sure works better!

Still really slow on the script downloading, doesn't it?
But works fine!

Congratulations!!!

[Brito]

Yes, I know what you mean - you'll be downloading scripts around the same speed you'd get when downloading files from a website since it uses the same http method.

The speed of the download will depend on your connection bandwith and on the speed of our boot land web server - wich can get slow if there are too many requests at the same time, there's not much that I can do about speedy downloads for the moment, but will keep this issue in mind..

[Moon Goon]

Auto-detecting projects in the Projects folder is a very cool feature. MUCH more intuitive than editing an .INI file.

One thing: If you place *just* a script.project file in WINBUILDER\PROJECTS it gets recognized as a valid project. What I would expect is that new projects would only be identified if
A. They have their own folder under Projects and
B. They have their own script.project in that folder.

Awesome work as always

[smiley]

Thanks for quick fixes !!

Here are some other important parts of my wish list:
-When winbuilder processes [process] section in script.project, variables don’t work
-You can add a utility in tools menu to add or create a project to winbuilder
-When the user downloads updates in the update center and selects a folder in the scripts tree, the progress tab disappears
-Winbuilder should recognise a folder as a project if its name has the postfix “.project” . This will make project scan faster (I think)

Here are also some not important fixes:
-While navigating in the scripts tree, if the user select a folder with up/down buttons the contents of the folder are not displayed in the right panel
-When the user select the tools menu and then exit, winbuilder selects the scripts tab and not the previous selected tab
-Right click in a project ->Run script, doesn't work


John

[thunn]

Nuno, perhaps you could set it up so the real latest beta appears on the downloads page. (unless this is by design to avaoid distributing unstable releases)

On another topic,

More and more scripts require build model to feed them variables.
This can be a drag if you want to say, add one additional app. in script form to an existing build. This is one thing I liked alot vs. pebuilder's process.
WB has seen a recent loss of flexibility as a trade off to incorporate some new worthwhile features including the reg hive builder.
I think we could use a compatible example script for adding an app. without any variables from the 'build model' script so that the script may be run at any time.
Otherwise, right click & run script could just be disabled. WB could also check for certain strings and disable some scripts that won't run.

[yahoouk]

Tested but I have no luck with XP LiveCD since WB067.
Shortcuts disappear(with FBWF) and net is dead always.
PEnetwork ever detects only my unused NIC.

[MedEvil]

Nuno, sorry, but the new beta2 does not download at all for me, not even with the setting that worked with the previous versions.

This is the error i get.

[thunn]

harsh.
Let's see if I can spin this into a positive...

While I actually prefer the bart based WB53 for my stable project(s), I can verify that using xpsp2-en, the build completes and boots. It boots a little slower when it should boot faster (as it's smaller) but I think that this has to do with the fact that the hives factory isn't quite polished yet. It took Bart much trial and error to produce his method, The best is yet to come...!

[Brito]

I've uploaded a new beta version - 3

This contains quite some changes/addons regarding the HTTP and FTP methods, unfortunatelly I no longer have web acess at my house so I couldn't work on the latest feedback, but will try to solve them quickly - one other thing that I've reminded myself while writing this post is registry enumeration - will also try to focus on this over the next beta..

Here's a quick sum of changes:

- "Create new updates.ini" tab was renamed to "Upload Config", allowing to create updates.ini/index.html files and add needed values for uploading scripts using the file tranfer protocol
- A few more bugfixes on the download method, safer behavior.
- In the middle of the download process it is already possible to close the application, aborting safely the download.
- updates.ini and index.html are completely independent from fixed web paths using using relative web links - meaning that it can be placed/moved to anywhere as long as the project/script found on subfolders are moved as well.
- updates.ini and index.html are now created and placed inside the projects folder - making it easier to just drap and drop everything on the new web location
- it is possible to preview how index.html will look when uploaded - just open/doubleclick it from disk to see the result
- Added WinBuilder's License Agreement inside WinBuilder.exe and a button to view it on the Options tab - no more extra files needed to distribute, wb can now be distributed as standalone exe.
- Backup tool - create button will warn whenever the projects folder is not removed as specified by the option to remove this folder after creating a backup
- Removed the right-click option to remove projects from the main window
- When pressing the Play button without selecting a valid source - the Source path edit box will flash a few times as a reminder of the need to input a value
- Added right-click option on the main window to upload scripts straight into the web server.

It is already possible to righ-click any script from the main window and upload it to your web server - but first it will be needed to test the ftp upload configuration on the tool box.

No progress bar added while uploading yet - this is the first release, so it should be added soon after more testings - I'm currently using a FileZilla FTP server from xampp for testing the ftp client on my laptop but this is too fast to properly adapt to a regular web connection.

MedEvil: I was hoping that this new method would solve your connections issues - can you test the FTP client and see if you can download/upload files with it?

If this works then perhaps using FTP download is also a viable alternative for cases where HTTP download is not possible.

Everyone- thank you very much for the detailed comments and feedback - it's very motivating!

[MedEvil]

MedEvil: I was hoping that this new method would solve your connections issues - can you test the FTP client and see if you can download/upload files with it?

If this works then perhaps using FTP download is also a viable alternative for cases where HTTP download is not possible.

Again no download. Same error as with Beta2.
As an added bonus, i get now an 'List index out of bounds' error, when i start WB.
As for testing the ftp client. Can you PM me the access data, i don't know them.

[Brito]

Try your own account at boot-land.net - it's meant to work with it.

Go to the ftp manager and add your username, password along with ftp path - medevil.boot-land.net

Press the Connect button to see the message box.

Path can be / to use the root folder

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If you can connect, upload and download using this - these are good news..


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For more advanced testings you can also try out xampp to quickly create an FTP/HTML/mySql server on your computer:
http://www.apachefri...g/en/xampp.html

No installation required - Just download, unpack and run setup_xampp.bat

Then you click on xampp-control.exe and start all services from a GUI (Filezilla, Apache, mySQL) - typing localhost on Opera will point you back to the HTDOCS subfolder from Xampp.


Using ftp:

Typing localhost as host for the ftp client will go to the anonymous sub-folder where you can login as "anonymous" without need to input a password. This user has only read permissions, but you can modify this from the FileZillaFTP sub-folder clicking on "FileZilla Server Interface.exe" and add permission of write to this user - just look for the options to see how to do this.

[MedEvil]

Try your own account at boot-land.net - it's meant to work with it.

Go to the ftp manager and add your username, password along with ftp path - medevil.boot-land.net

Press the Connect button to see the message box.

Path can be / to use the root folder

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If you can connect, upload and download using this - these are good news..
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Sorry, misunderstood you. Thought you ment testing it with the downloadcenter.

[MedEvil]

Ftp manager works fine.
Though it would be a good idea, to point somewhere out, that only the servername without protocol is required.
name.boot-land.net - is correct
ftp://name.boot-land.net - brings an error

Maybe a simple 'ftp://' before the textbox?

Most confusing, the tabs do something strange. When i click on Tools, i get only a tool tab. But when i close tools, i get the tool tab in the same row as the other tabs?

[Brito]

Ftp manager works fine.
Though it would be a good idea, to point somewhere out, that only the servername without protocol is required.
name.boot-land.net - is correct
ftp://name.boot-land.net - brings an error

Maybe a simple 'ftp://' before the textbox?

Most confusing, the tabs do something strange. When i click on Tools, i get only a tool tab. But when i close tools, i get the tool tab in the same row as the other tabs?

Thanks for the testing - will ftp download as an option!

Regarding the tools tab - just an experiment - will correct it..

[MedEvil]

Thanks for the testing - will ftp download as an option!

Regarding the tools tab - just an experiment - will correct it..

Interesting though, that http download has now stoped working at all.

[Brito]

Hi everyone!

A new beta has been uploaded - it just contains winbuilder.exe and nothing more is required since it has hardcoded by default the most commonly used settings, even the web server is now pointing to http://updates.boot-land.net from where people can also visit the site to see wich updates/files are available for download.

Also moved the web server edit box to the updates center, and there is a small issue displaying the progress bar following the current download file - altought the overall download progressbar is working just fine - it will also not seem to be hanged, so people can be doing other things while wb is downloading newer scripts.


Also worth mentioning that it's much easier to create a web server now, here's the quick steps:

• Create a "clean" Projects folder, removing all unwanted temporary files that are created during the build process. Clean all references to your source CD on the paths tab.
  
  
• Go to the tools box, "Upload config" tab, press the "Create" button
  
  
• Upload all files and subfolders inside your projects folder using your favorite ftp client
  
  
• Write the http path to where updates.ini on the update center

You're ready to distro your modded wb along with the custom winbuilder.ini ...

[MedEvil]

Download is working! Even the way it did not before!!!
Hallowed is the Nuno !