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What's New in The Version 2

Version 2 is all new and completely rewritten:

  • Added two more ways of replacing Icon/Cursor entries with the ChangeIcon/Cursor functions.
  • Added the UserErrorLevel property to return the user-defined exit codes.
  • The main procedures became functions and now return True if the operation is successful.
  • Localized output in multiple languages, depending upon the user's locale.
  • The SortGroupCursor/Icon procedures are no longer required, now RTC 2 automatically performs these operations.

 RTC Version History

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In The Previous Versions

+ The ChangeIcon procedure supports PNG images in .ICO files.

Now RTC supports adding hi-res Vista icons from Icon files (.ICO) that contain compressed .PNG images. Previously, RTC could only add Vista icons from stand-alone .PNG files.

!!! CRITICAL UPDATE: Changed the way to specify relative paths to the target files in the scripts.

Please update your scripts! Now it's as it should be: one dot means the current folder, two dots mean the parent folder (one level up).

PEFileProxy.OpenFile ".\src\DemoApp.exe"
PEFileProxy.OpenFile "..\..\UpDir\DemoApp2.exe"
PEFileProxy.SaveAsNewImage ".\release\DemoApp3.exe"

Also:

  • Improved processing of huge executable files (of 600MB or larger).
  • Added new exit codes.
  • Updated the script code templates.
  • Bugfix: The "Scriptfile not found" error message didn't log.

  • Added the ChangeCustomResource procedure.

    • Now RTC supports editing any common data types that stored as custom resources: major graphic files (.GIF, .PNG, .JPG), sound (.WAV, .MIDI) and video (.AVI) files, or binary files (.CAB, etc).

  • Added the UPX Unpacker plug-in.

    • Now when you process a file with RTC, the UPX Unpacker plug-in detects whether this file is packed with UPX, and then unpacks it automatically.

  • Now supports editing cursors. Added the ChangeCursor procedure.
  • Added the SortGroupCursor procedure for sorting cursors in the Cursor group according to their size and color depth.
  • The RebaseImage procedure will let your DLLs have their image base set manually to avoid conflicts when your application loads a few DLLs having the same base address.
  • An improved algorithm for working with non-typical PE files, for instance produced with REALbasic.
  • Added the ability to override the command-line options in the script.

    This Command Line Setting Override feature allows you to override the command-line settings right in the script body. This is very useful when you need to change the settings just for a single script, or be able to start different scripts with different settings without making them use different batch files.

  • Added the StripEmptyResSection property to flag the empty resource section for deletion when saving the file.
  • The CloseFile, SaveAsResDll, and SaveAsNewImage former procedures became functions.

    •     This lets you write e.g. :

       If (Not PEFileProxy.CloseFile) Then yadayada
       If (Not PEFileProxy.SaveAsNewImage(sFile)) Then yadyada

  • Now supports editing Application manifests. Added the ChangeManifest procedure.

    • The procedure replaces or adds if not exists an application manifest in the file resources based on a specified criteria (for EXE, DLL or Control Panel Applet files).

  • Added the OpenFileEx function to simplify writing scripts.

    • This combines and replace three other procedures. Now you can open a file, check and creates resources using a single procedure instead.

  • Fixed errors that occaissionally occurred when saving files containing Extra Data (such as debug info, digital certificate, etc).

 

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