upgrade setups from SB4 to SB5 ?

[Clint]

Can a person upgrade SB4 setups to the setup builder 5 without having to redo all our setups? thanks.

[linder]

Hello,

No. Because the technology is too different, it's impossible to import a
.sb4 into the new SetupBuilder 5. SB5 gives you so much more power
and flexibility, it might be wise to "rethink" some distribution
projects.

SB5 has a different philosophy regarding the project management (and
feature set). SB5 is completely "script driven". SB4.x projects are
limited because they are based on a sequential database driven
processing model. Something like the following:

1) Display GUI (Welcome -> Readme -> License -> etc.)
2) Install Files
3) Write Registry/INI Entries
4) Perform Actions
5) Run Programs

In contrast to SB4, the new SB5 is completely script driven; powered by
a installation programming language for Win32 and Win64. Would you like
to display the License Agreement before your Welcome dialog? No problem.
Or read some values out of the Registry and based on this information
display different sets of wizard dialogs. With SB5 you can do it. SB5
supports IF..THEN..ELSE and LOOP control structures to provide looping
and conditional execution of installation components.

You can now use the *same* script to compile *different* versions of your
installer (e.g. full or upgrade image). The SB5 preprocessor can
conditionally include lines of code within an installer program. The
directives that include code conditionally are defined in such a way that
you can construct a chain of inclusion directives to include exactly the
functions you want.

At the moment we are working on a Visual Dialog Editor (will be part of
one of the next releases) to give you even more power and flexibility.

Just let me know if you have any further questions.

Friedrich

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CEO, Lindersoft
www.lindersoft.com
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