InstallAware Multi PlatformRelease Candidate 0 is now available for immediate download:
– Web Updates: The proving grounds for this latest release, new web update script and dialogs have given the setup engine a brutal shakedown! Added to your project with a single click. Platforms are matched to updates without manual coding. Editing the script is super easy for introducing additional match filters (such as language), or just to customize the whole business logic and user experience.
– New IDE Designers: Experience the simplicity of our web update implementation – define your Update Packs and associate them with your Versions already out in the field. Set Access Control on file system objects, define File Associations to register your apps as extension handlers, manipulate Local Files and edit INI Files, access your most vital Project Properties from one place.
– 100 Commands: New looping constructs, string manipulation, and system information commands. While building our web updates we also refined our existing commands – stuff that took multiple commands now takes just one (ex: Run Program finding macOS app bundle launch targets). Intelligent cross-platform command parameter adapations recompile your existing Windows setups for macOS and Linux in one click.
– Ready for Prime Time: A wealth of Single Click, User Mode, User Feedback, Online Authentication, Media Autorun, and Multi-Lingual demos (again with their corresponding engine shakedowns). Updated setup themes for cross-platform compatibility. Take whatever is closest to what you want to build – or start tabula rasa with a fully empty script.
– Quick Start: Just point it to your app folder, check your entry point binaries, and instantly render a customizable setup project.
– IDE Toolbar: Those big bold buttons are the guideposts on your InstallAware journey – instantly locate your output folders, for example.
– Engine Tweaks: Your invaluable feedback has resolved countless performance and stability issues in the setup engine (to say nothing of the IDE).
– UX Enhancements: From improved font legibility to unified dialog names across setup projects and dialog themes, it’s all finally coming together here!
2023’s first drop of InstallAware Multi for macOS, Linux, and Windows has arrived – download beta 3 at www.installaware.com/installaware-multi-platform.htm today! – Localization: In-engine multi-lingual awareness, coupled with the Localization Wizard and the third-party redistributable stand-alone Translator app (letting you share localizable assets without giving your IP away).
– Visual IDE: It’s finally here! Graphically design your Features, Files, Dialogs, Shortcuts, Run Programs, Web Media Blocks, and Script Analytics – while the IDE automagically generates underlying code for you!
– ARM Architecture: Official support for macOS and Linux ARM builds, out-of-the-box! Plus, platform defines which let you broadly (or precisely) identify whether you’re running on the AARCH64 platform. – New Project Dialog: From Template creation (isolate shared references [such as Include Scripts], converting projects into reusable assets) to new Sample Projects, it’s all making its way here.
InstallAware Multi is 100% dependency-free (no Java), native-code (for all operating systems), with support for advanced features such as silent installs out-of-the-box.
Only InstallAware Multi features 100% customizable setup dialogs with a 100% customizable setup script – letting you get the job done in record time.
Are you working on an open source project? InstallAware Multi is built with Lazarus, and we’re giving free licenses for all open source efforts!
InstallAware 22H2 is now paired with a ground breaking cross-platform IDE called InstallAware Multi:
o A brand-new, single-edition offering from InstallAware including groundbreaking PackageAware Setup Capture for macOS and Linux.
o Compile your existing projects for macOS and Linux, including code signing and notarization with fully automated command line builds.
o Virtually identical script forms and dialog controls. Load all existing scripts and dialogs – accurate down to the pixel – and recompile.
o The Multi Platform script editor and Dialog Designer are included, so you get to enjoy them even if your edition doesn’t have them for Windows!
o Fully native setups with 100% customizable script and GUI for macOS and Linux. Build your PKG, DEB, and RPM bundles in an easy to use integrated setup.
Download Multi beta 2 immediately and get your hands dirty!
The next big update for InstallAware is almost here, landing on Friday this week!
o Windows 22H2: Official support is here for both Windows 10’s latest and Windows 11’s first major version upgrades, as dubbed by Microsoft.
o Windows Features: Definitions and dependencies have been fully updated for i386, AMD64, and AARCH64 architectures on Windows 10 and Windows 11 22H2.
o ASLR & DEP Security: Additional mitigation to ensure your setups are as reliable as possible and equally safe from attacks – critical in this day and age!
o Up to 50% Faster Builds: Reap the benefits of our cross platform labors trickling down to Windows, even if you haven’t yet upgraded to InstallAware Multi Platform.
A year and half after our initial announcement, InstallAware Multi Platform Beta 1 is finally here – shipping on Friday this week! Look at the terrific work that’s been accomplished by our team in this exciting evolution of InstallAware:
o Native Binaries: Supporting Linux, macOS, and Windows with zero dependencies (no Java) – zero failures.
o Single Source: A single setup script (and dialogs) that look & feel & work the same on each compiled target.
o Code Signing with Notarization:macOS Gatekeeper friendly! Sign, notarize, and even staple while building.
o Elevation:Official Linux/macOS/Windows privilege escalation channels (with corresponding folder paths).
o Partial Web Deploy: Structure your setups into as many (shareable) online and offline segments as you like.
o Tools & IDE: Command line builds, Dialog Designer, and even the script editor – just as you know & love them!
o Core Commands: Install Files, Create Shortcut, Run Program, Compiler Variables; plus the visual debugger.
o Native Engine:Registry-free state management, per-user/per-machine installs, runtime mutable features.
o Instance Management: Local setup caching (maintenance without source), source resolution (network installs).
o Custom Uninstalls: Bind to external setup logs for seamless old version removals/updates, nothing hard-coded.
Join the conversation and directly shape the the future of cross platform installation!
Beta 1, launching on Friday this week, implements 100% of the above!
We’re thrilled to be partnering with you on this journey, and anxious to hear what you think of InstallAware MP!
DiskZIP grows your free disk space without deleting, moving, or erasing a single file! But by how much?Let’s find out. Here’s a screenshot of Windows 11 running out of space:
Click Install, sit back, and relax. You’re done when you see the window below:
Intuitively, click Compress. Two options are unveiled:
DiskZIP Online performs compression in literally one-click, without even restarting Windows or closing any apps; so you can try it out anytime. Here we want to look at the more powerful DiskZIP Offline, so choose that:
CPU’s today have so many cores and are so powerful that we can safely max out the compression strength without any adverse effects later on: click the big starry field button with the moon on the blue background to move the compression slider all the way to MaxSpace in one fell swoop. After, click Compress. Easy enough!
Confirm when you are ready to reboot and click OK. On the boot screen, tap, click, or use the keyboard to select the new DiskZIP Offline item from the menu:
Some stealth PCs may just give you a blank screen (while your display is still switched on) before booting Windows right back up into the Desktop with the following notification:
If this happens to you – don’t worry, you’re actually still getting the same blue Choose an operating system screen above just as everybody else is, but your PC is cloaking it for some reason. Just press the down arrow key on your keyboard to select the DiskZIP Offline boot menu item from this invisible screen and then press the Enter key on your keyboard to confirm your selection. You’ve just rejoined us mere mortals without any stealthy laptops:
DiskZIP first checks your disks for any errors. Once you are cleared for take off, it starts taking an inventory of all the files on your disk:
Once the inventory is complete, the fun really starts: DiskZIP builds an archive at the root of your disk, compressing everything including the operating system itself. That’s why we had to restart your PC after all:
DiskZIP uses all of your CPU cores to build your archive as quickly as possible. While this is going on, you may launch the Task Manager or even a Command Line window by clicking the chevron – the small down arrow – located on the right side of the Cancel button:
Distractions aside, as soon as DiskZIP finishes creating your archive, it begins configuring your operating system to boot directly from this archive; without ever unzipping anything:
Of course, the original uncompressed files are no longer eating up any space on your disk. Everything is stored as compact as possible, including your operating system itself:
DiskZIP then removes itself from the boot menu and takes us right back into Windows. Not only is everything where we left it, but we’ve also grown our disk by a factor of 2.4X – this is incredible!
That was some quick fun compressing your disk!
Feel free to re-compress your disk any time you need to maximize your space!
