Links in RTF viewer

[Tom H.]

Hi!

Is there a way for the SB10 RTF file viewer to handle http links? The links are valid in WordPad, and worked in the older WISE installers, but display in SB10 as '<mylink>' and aren't active/clickable.

Thanks,
Tom

[linder]

Hi Tom,

Unfortunately, the standard Windows Rich Text Controls do not support hyperlinks :( It's not a SB10 RTF file viewer, it's the underlying and built-in Windows RTF Control.

I'll check if it is possible to "subclass" the RTF control to open the link in the default Internet browser.

Friedrich

[linder]

Hi Tom,


worked in the older WISE installers

You know how to put pressure on me <bg>.

Please check this small test "installer" (it only displays a dummy RTF file, does not install anything, opens www.lindersoft.com when you click the URL in the RTF):

http://www.lindersoft.com/projects/Hyperlink.zip

Does this work on your machine(s)?

Friedrich

[KCL]

Friedrich,

I'm highly in favor of this feature :) It would be a nice workaround to remedy the EULA length restriction.

The link worked on my machine.

Kevin

[linder]

Kevin,

this feature already works fine and will be available in the soon coming new build. The length restriction should not be a problem... did you open the .rtf in WordPad and re-save it to get rid of the garbage ("overhead" from Word, etc. <g>)?

Friedrich

[KCL]

The length restriction is still a thing; and yes, I saved the RTF with WordPad... It's simply just a longer license file. I can send it to you if you'd like. Its 149 KB in size to be precise. The "Word" version is 762KB. When you license for multiple countries, it'll get that big.


Generating and optimizing [1033] string resources [@2]...
Processing external file: E:\workspace\Installer-pr\Resources\EULA.rtf
: warning GEN1024: License Agreement text file too large (auto-truncated):
OK

Thanks for the links, looking forward to it. And thank you for the code-signing #pragma scripting. It works great.

[linder]

Could you please send me that EULA.rtf?

Friedrich

[KCL]

You should see it in your inbox now, thank you :)

[linder]

Thanks for the file. Yes, this file is really that large. Not sure if it is possible to increase the size in the compiler to process it because 100 KB is a fix limit in the runtime. We'll see what we can do.

Friedrich

[linder]

Kevin,

I have increased the sized limit for the license agreement text file to 200 KB. It seems to work fine, but we have to check for negative side effects.

Friedrich

[KCL]

Sounds great, thank you!

Is there a timetable when this might get released? Or when the "RTF-links" is going to be released?

[CleanFacets]

We had the same issue and I'm glad the size limit is being expanded.
Also, the WordPad save was very useful, I all but forgot about WordPad. Didn't even know it still existed... :)

Carl

[linder]

Kevin,

I should have an ETA soon. There are quite a few important new features, fixes and enhancements in the new SB build.

Friedrich

[KCL]

Hey Friedrich,

Any updates when the next release will be available :)

Thank you,
KCL

[linder]

Sorry for the silence. I am knee deep in development... and had to check a few things before giving an official answer. The next release is scheduled for October 30, 2017. This will be a release with fixes and enhancements. Then, by the end of November 2017, we'll see a new SB release with brand new built-in support for SSL (https). This is a major and not trivial change in SetupBuilder.

Sorry for the delay in answering.

Friedrich

[linder]

Tom,

the new SetupBuilder release is available now.

Friedrich

[Tom H.]

Yay! Thank you!

We will be testing it today.

Tom H.

[KCL]

Thank you Friedrich! Will be testing this. Is possible to test with trial version of SB?

[linder]

Yes, absolutely :)

Friedrich