April 5th, 2012· Improved search engine: search results are now sorted by relevance and number of occurrences are displayed (can be disabled thanks to the new HESearchRelevanceNoDisplay global variable).
· PDF viewer: it is now possible not to highlight hyperlinks in PDF files.
· New remote validation method: you can now validate registration keys every X times.
· Fixed random application hangs at startup for HTML Viewer publications + PDF selected as homepage.
· Updated PDF engine: minor improvements.
· Updated built-in HTML Viewer engine.
· SFX publications: another bug at startup fixed.
· Language files were updated.
· New HEScript function: RandomRange. It generates a random Integer number.
· Minor improvements.
· New resource string: STimes
March 28th, 2012· HTML Executable is now compatible with Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Internet Explorer 10 (Preview).
· The PDF viewer now displays the title of PDF files in the titlebar and no more the filename.
· New option to display the PDF's navigation bookmark panel at startup.
· Improved PDF Viewer: you can now link to specific pages by number or named locations.
· New HEScript commands: PDFViewerCommand and PDFViewerCommandStr to send commands to the PDF viewer engine (for advanced users only).
· New HEScript event in UserMain script: OnPDFDisplay. This event is called when the PDF viewer loads and displays the PDF whose path is given by PDFPath.
· New: the search engine can parse PDF files even if the built-in PDF viewer is disabled.
· Added support for TRegistry to the HEScript scripting engine.
· Fixed random bug at startup in Self-Extracting publications.
· Fixed: stand-alone publications did not read command line parameters properly.
· Fixed: the global password mask field did not work.
· Fixed: JavaScript URLs are no more displayed in status bars when AutoShowURLs is set to False.
· Improved popup behavior: popup windows are now independent from the main window.
· Improved French translation.
· Updated built-in HTML Viewer engine.
· Updated skin engine.
· Updated PDF engine: improved handling of PDF files with corrupt font information.
· Minor improvements.
February 19th, 2012· Full French translation available for HTML Executable's interface. The documentation and samples will be localized too in the future.
· You can now load external PDF files directly in the publication thanks to the HEScript command named "LoadPDFFromFile".
· The activation process displays more error messages when it fails.
· Fixed: popup and window issues in stand-alone IE publications.
· Fixed: words were not correctly indexed if you unchecked "Use default word delimiters based on Unicode categories".
· Fixed shortcut problem in IE publications, especially ń in Polish (right alt + n).
· Added SW_HIDE command for RunAProgram.
· JavaScript URLs are no more displayed in status bars when AutoShowURLs is set to False.
· Updated skin engine and skins.
· New skins available: iOS4 Aero2, Win8 Aero and Android Aero.
Updated PDF engine:
· printing always tried to change paper size and so scaling did not work as expected.
· support for axial shading (solo and pattern)
· improved support for CMYK graphics
· some improvements for color functions
· fixes problem with scrollbars
· Overlay draw objects are now printed
· Now also renders fonts which fail to load by GDI+ (i.e. "Vivaldi")
· Minor updates and improvements.
December 23rd, 2011· HTML Executable now generates real stand-alone EXE files. Previously, the runtime module was only merged into the EXE file and it was unpacked to the temporary folder at runtime. This behavior was misinterpreted by some antivirus programs.
· Furthermore, EXE files can now be compressed with UPX or any third-party EXE compressor / EXE protector.
· New Authenticode code signing utility: you do not have to download and install SignTool yourself anymore.
· Improved HTML viewer engine (lots of changes and improvements).
· Improved PDF viewer engine (lots of changes and improvements, especially for image decoding and color spaces).
· Improved built-in XML engine.
· You can now choose a PDF file as homepage and HTML Executable can create an adapted project ("PDF to EXE" case). See this video tutorial: PDF to ebook software tutorial.
· EXE Version Information: version number format is no more restricted (for instance, you can enter 1.23.456.78 instead of 1.2.3.4).
· The font size of the Table of Contents can be customized (TOC properties => set property OverrideFontSize to something different than 0).
· Optimization when loading very large TOCs.
· Fixed: hescript:// urls are now properly decoded when using non-friendly characters for parameters.
· Fixed: in "Start Prompt Message", the /§ did not work as a carriage-return-line-feed.
· New French (français) language file.
· Added NoMultiThreading option to disable multi-threading support in IE publications. Only useful for troubleshooting purposes with some Flash movies (in Windows XP).
· HTML Executable now displays time elapsed during compilation.
· Several minor bug fixes and improvements.
November 14th, 2011· Full compatibility with our ebook protection service Protect Ebook .net.
· Fixed deactivation error message when the remote server could not be reached.
PDF engine improvements:
· - much improved for Type3 fonts with optimization for bitmap types.
· - problem fixed for some PDF files which use encryption.
· - some fixes in PDF loading.
· Fixed problem related to PDFs with links to other PDFs.
· Fixed popup-related problems in IE publications.
· Minor improvements.
November 14th, 2011· Added page rotation commands to the built-in PDF viewer. Please note that this feature is not compatible with text selection. It can be disabled in the HTML Executable's "PDF Viewer" page.
· New menu commands named "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" for IE publications, allowing users to increase or decrease the optical zoom. You can enable or disable them with the "IE Browser" property: AllowModifyOpticalZoom.
· As an HTML Executable customer, you can purchase a valid code signing certificate at a discounted price from our partner, K Software, a Comodo Strategic Partner. If you are interested in purchasing or renewing a certificate, please go to the HTML Executable's My Account page and choose "Purchase a code signing certificate" in order to get a coupon code for the discount.
· New resource strings: SYes, SNo, SMenuZoomIn, SMenuZoomOut
· Improved script runtime engine.
· Fixed MessageDlg bug showing No instead of OK button.
· If you edit the source code of dialog boxes, now the HTML source code is stored as UTF-8. Remember that only UTF-8 is accepted in dialog boxes.
· Fixed CustomUserAgent problem when using %ORIGINAL% or leaving the field blank.
· Fixed problem with the locking of the HTML Executable's main window to the screen edge.
· Fixed "access violation" bug when an error occurred during activation or validation (for Trial publications).
· Minor improvements.
June 12th, 2010· New protection for runtime modules to avoid false positives from some antivirus.
· Runtime modules are now digitally signed with Authenticode.
· Publications no longer use WMI to determine serial numbers. Consequently, unique IDs based on hard disk's manufacturer serial number will change: you may need to issue new registration keys to your customers.
· New Disk Information utility available in HTML Executable (Tools / Disk Information): it lets you retrieve hardware information about disks and especially whether a USB stick has a manufacturer serial number or not. Remember that hardware-locked portable publications require a USB stick with a valid manufacturer serial number, however some manufacturers do not assign one.
· New Publication Cleanup utility (in Output Filename tab): HTML Executable generates a portable cleanup program that lets you clear traces and settings saved by your publications on different computers.
· New option for advanced users that offers scripting extension to compute the unique system ID.
· New global variable HEPublicationDiskInfo that contains information about the USB disk.
· Fixed a bug in SFX publications that occurred if IE8 was already running.
· New security option for publications: Do not run if a debugger is detected.
· New global variable HECheckDebug to determine whether a debugger is running or not.
· New HEScript functions related to file virtualization: UnpackVirtualResource and RemoveVirtualResource.
· New option to enable or disable the Adobe Reader's toolbar for PDF files in HTML Viewer publications (User Interface -> HTML Viewer -> AllowToolbarForPDF)
· Fixed problem with HEScript calls in popups: function parameters were ignored.
· Fixed problem with virtualization and external files in HTML Viewer publications.
· Fixed random crash in the object editor (Publication Settings -> User Interface) for the Menu Bar, Status Bar...
· Updated FAQ section and documentation.
· Added advices in the FAQ for compiling content made with Articulate products.
· Minor improvements.
December 12th, 2009· New file protection: virtualization for temporary files. With this option available in Security => Global Protection, resource and plug-in files like PDF, Flash SWF, Flash video FLV, MP3... are not unpacked to the hard disk but directly to memory, offering better protection. Remember that files like HTML, images, JavaScript... are never unpacked to the hard disk whether the virtualization option is enabled or not (except for Self-Extracting publications).
· Fixed a problem on multi-core systems that was changing the system IDs based on CPU info.
· The context menu for fields is now enabled on the activation screen too. Reset system HTML pages for applying.
· Extended "Only one instance of the publication" option: now if you run your publication again, the second and subsequent invocation of the EXE doesn't start a new instance, but uses the one that's already running and only changes the page displayed in it according to the command line. For instance: if I create an HTML exe application myapp.exe, I can get myapp.exe to start with a certain page by using myapp.exe mapid 1024 where 1024 is the mapid for the page I want. If I then call
· myapp.exe mapid 1025 the first instance of the app will show the page with mapid 1025.
· New command line option for publications: ignoreuserpos. It's helpful to allow the end user to set size and move the window around, but sometimes users will move to a 2nd monitor, then run without it or forget to turn it on, and they will "loose" it. This command line option will open the publication screen-centered.
· Buttons in some system HTML pages like Favorite Manager, Search Results... may now be modified with resource strings (SSearchHTMLNewSearchButton, SSearchHTMLHVShowFindButton,
· SFavoriteHTMLAddFvButton...)
· In HTML viewer publications, Adobe Reader does not show the toolbar anymore when displaying PDF files. You can still enable it with the enabletoolbar parameter. See the Main Demonstration.
· Fixed: the "Allow resize window" option was not working in some cases.
· Fixed: for old projects, some new system HTML pages were not listed.
· Fixed: turning "Enable fast decompression" on caused an error at startup ("This program is corrupted").
· Uniform sizes for registration dialog boxes. Reset system HTML pages for applying.
· New HEScript function: ClearVirtualCache to free memory used by virtual file protection.
· New stand-alone key generator for publications, available to registered users only (Pro/Commercial).
· Updated Activation Kit, available to registered users only (Commercial).
· Updated skin engine.
· New "Edition => Key Generator" shortcut (or CTRL+K).
· Minor improvements.
Compatibility:
· New resource strings were added and language files updated.
· Fixed problem for system IDs based on CPU info: you may need to issue new keys again if you used this option.
· System HTML pages were updated. We recommend you to reset them when you load an old project.
· Runtime modules still accept publications made with HTML Executable 3.3.x and 3.5.x. However, we strongly recommend you to rebuild all of your existing publications with HTML Executable 3.6, especially to fix any IE8-related problems.
· No guaranteed support anymore for Windows Me and previous ones, as explained above.
November 3rd, 2009· Global Improvements
· Increased compatibility with Windows 7.
· Some optimizations which improved overall speed in publications and especially loading time for large ones.
· The main compression algorithm (LZMA) was adjusted. The Best compression mode is now really slower but it provides better compression ratio. Note: on old machines, default may be slower too: you may need to switch to Minimum.
· If the size of a compressed file is larger than its original size, HTML Executable now stores it uncompressed.
· In Windows 7, the HTML Executable taskbar button now displays compilation progress.
· Fixed bug: some publications were sporadically crashing or not displaying certain images when IE8 was installed.
· Fixed bug: XP theme manifest problem with Windows XP without any Service Pack.
· Fixed bug: Self-Extracting publications now work property with IE8 (a problem might occur if IE8 was already started).
· Documentation updated.
· Several minor changes and improvements.
· Make Portable Versions
HTML Executable can now create portable versions of your publications:
· no installation is required, your publication can be stored on a removable device such as USB flash drive, enabling it to be used on multiple computers.
· settings are stored with the software (i.e. they are written to the USB drive). No registry is used in that case.
· no modification is made to any PC the publication is run on after being used.
· Moreover, a portable and restricted publication can be configured to run only on a given USB drive. Thus, copying it to another disk will make it unregistered or unusable. Steps are explained in the documentation. See hardware-locked publications below too.
· If you do not create a portable version, you may now specify the name of the folder where a publication should store its settings into.
Hardware-locked publications and nag screen improvements:
· New methods to compute the unique system ID (or hardware ID): disk serial number, manufacturer-allocated serial numbers of USB drives or hard disks, CPU ID... The WMI component of Windows is used in some cases.
· New option to create publications that are hardware-locked to a USB disk via its serial number. For instance, clients who should have the option to show the secured software on every computer but should not have the ability to copy the software to another USB-stick/computer.
· Fixed bug: the system ID was still displayed in the nag screen though online activation was enabled.
· Improved nag screen according to user feedback.
· New Copy button in the nag screen to copy the unique system ID to the clipboard.
· Fixed bug: even though the "Organization" field is optional, an invisible "space" character (or two) in that field was completely changing the resultant registration key.
· The context menu is now enabled for fields (especially Copy / Paste).
· New Table of Contents, Menu and Toolbar Options
· New "Delete Entire TOC" context menu command: you can delete all nodes of the Table of Contents at once.
· New toolbar option: you can control the height of the all the buttons as a group (be sure to set the SkinData property to "resizetoolpanel"), and the width individually thanks to the new CustomWidth property. If its value is different than -1, then the button's width is set to CustomWidth in pixels. It only works if the SkinData property of the button is set to "resizetoolbutton".
· New feature: menu items may now have their own images (exactly as you have in HTML Executable). A new image selection property is available in the Menu Editor.
· Improved automatic insertion of button separators in the toolbar.
· Default transparency value is now set to 10 instead of 245.
· New "Choose Text Size" option for Internet Explorer publications (and new AllowModifyTextSize property in User Interface): you can let your users increase or decrease the default font size in pages.
· Custom dialogs and system HTML pages
· User custom HTML dialog boxes are now allowed: you can create and invoke your own dialog boxes.
· Two new dialog boxes are available: a License Agreement dialog displayed at startup and a Dummy dialog. You can find them in the "CustomDialogs" subfolder: be sure to read the associated Readme.txt before using them.
· The context menu is now enabled for fields in System HTML pages: for instance, you can now input the registration key in the nag screen with the "Right-Click"->"Paste" facility.
· New skin, pop-up and window options
· New skin window effects: layered borders and new associated skin options.
· New skins: SnowLeopard, VisionEx, Office 2010 Blue.
· Updated skin engine and existing skins.
· New HEScript and window.external JavaScript functions related to pop-up windows: ShowPopupEx, SetPopupProp and new parameters for window.external.ShowPopup. You can set the focus to a popup, bring a popup to front, control the z-order for each popup...
· Search engine
· New option: up to 3 wildcards (*) can now be used in a search query.
· New HEScript event in UserMain called OnModifySearchRequest: it lets you modify the search query. For example, you want to find all product codes that begin with "DWT-DW". The search works if you enter "DWT-DW*". With the OnModifySearchRequest event, you can add the "*" to the query automatically.
· HEScript improvements
· New MD5OfAFile function to compute MD5 hash sum of a file.
· New SetMenuProp function to set a property of a menu item.
· New GetManualHardwareID function to retrieve a unique serial number.
· New HEPublicationOnUSB global variable: tells you whether the publication is on a USB drive or not. In order to be used, GetManualHardwareID(1) must be invoked first. For example, using this global variable lets you decide whether a publication may be run or not.
· New runtime module version references: 1.5.0.
· Compatibility
· New resource strings were added and language files updated.
· New options are now available for computing the unique system ID.
· System HTML pages like the nag screen were updated. Be sure to reset them when you load an old project, especially for restricted publications.
· Runtime modules still accept publications made with HTML Executable 3.3.x and 3.5.x.
· No guaranteed support anymore for Windows Me and previous ones, as explained above.
May 15th, 2009· New skin options and support for semi-transparent toolbar images
· Improved skin engine and new skins (Windows7, Charm...)
· Some skins come with new visual effects like the Vista glow effect for buttons
· New PNG support for the toolbar. Create toolbar buttons featuring semi-transparency (32-bit images with alpha channel are now handled)
· You can set the height of the toolbar in the User Interface tab and its buttons (provided that the skinname property is set to resizetoolbutton for any button and resizetoolbar for the toolbar)
· New image strips with alpha channel for toolbars are provided
· Fixed: the Toolbar's Align property did not work properly
· Improved pop-up windows and new tray icon feature
· Improved display of several popup windows in the same time
· Fixed problems when opening a popup window from another popup window: while the second popup shows up, the first popup hides behind the main application window (which was highly undesirable)
· A new popup tab with options is now available in HTML Executable: change the default popup window size
· New menu bars in pop-up windows: you can have a customized menu bar for pop-up windows. It is however the same for all pop-ups
· New useful commands in the Global default script that can be invoked from pop-up windows or the tray menu like printing the contents of a pop-up, closing the pop-up... HEExitPublication, HERestoreFromTray, HECloseCurrentPopup, HEPopupPrintPreview
· New Tray Icon option to show an icon in the system tray related to the publication. The Tray Icon can get its own customized menu in addition to some default commands like Restore and Exit
· New HEScript Tray Icon Functions: TrayShowMainForm, TrayHideMainForm, ShowBalloonHint, HideBalloonHint
· When the Tray Icon option is active, the publication can be minimized in the system tray instead of the taskbar
· New target option for menu and toolbar button items
· Better search feature
· Improved search panel (search hints are displayed, better display of search results)
· New wild card operator * for searching in publications
· Fixed problems with word highlighting in IE publications
· Improved HTML parser, more word delimiters were added. Words with less than 2 characters are ignored
· Fixed: words in the exclude list are no more highlighted
· New Find button in the Search panel
· Security enhancements, new options for trial ebooks, online activation
· New online activation method for registering publications. It requires the HTML Executable Activation Kit (see the documentation)
· New Deactivation feature to uninstall a registration key definitively from a computer
· New blacklist option for stolen or refunded registration keys
· Improved the Global Password feature: in order to create a set of 'acceptable' passwords that can be unique, when distributing to a set of customers, wild card characters are accepted: Allowed: # digit (0..9), _ character a..z and A..Z, * any character
· So, you can set up the following global password: 123-4**-A** (and so any character can be input for the wildcard place holder)
· Security profiles were extended to SWF files (for instance, you can configure whether some slides in a Flash-powered presentation can be displayed or not if the user is not registered)
· New OnExpiredPublication event in UserMain that lets you define what should happen when a publication expires. For instance, once the global expiry date has been reached an alert box tells the user that the program has expired and the program terminates. Now you can trap this process in script and navigate to an information page instead
· Improved security for publications
· New OnInvalidPasswordAtStartup event in UserMain that lets you define what should happen when the user enters an invalid password at startup
· The key generator for publications was updated so the 0 character is replaced by H: it was difficult for the end-user to tell the difference between the number 0 and the letter O. Please upgrade your existing implementations of the key generator
· Updated trial and registration dialog boxes
· Better support for third-party plug-ins
· Publications now optionally run an internal HTTP server. This should definitively fix problems like both playing MP3, MP4, and FLV resources in Flash movies, reading Windows Media files (WMA, WMV) with no Internet connection, displaying Java applets... Take a look at the documentation about how to configure it
· Added a topic about how to use Microsoft Silverlight applications in compiled publications
· New HEScript-related functions
· New global variable HEInternetCachePath that contains the TEMPORARY INTERNET FILES path
· New OnStartMainWindow event in UserMain
· New HEScript functions and objects: file open & save dialog boxes OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog, FileExists, strExtract, SetClipboardText and GetClipboardText (copy/retrieve text to/from the clipboard), ClearIECacheOrHistory (to clear the cache or history in IE), LoadHTMLFromMemory lets you display a HTML page from memory, TMemoryStream encapsulates a memory stream to store data easily, NavigateCommand supports the Cut operation (IE only), Optical Zoom IN / OUT functions (IE7 and IE8 only), ActivePopupName to get the name of the pop-up which is focused
· New help topic about how to call external DLL functions
· Miscellaneous
· New Reset button for System HTML pages
· Now the TOC has a DefaultTarget property (in User Interface) and each TOC entry can have its own target (special targets also work)
· New Expand property for each TOC item to show some open topics at startup
· Fixed a problem with OnWindowCloseQuery
· Improved HTML Engine for HTML Viewer Publications
· Fixed: HTML Publications did not load images whose filenames had spaces
· Allow background: none; to suppress background color
· Fix problem where caret could not be found in text to left of floating object
· In stylesheets, accomodate comments like /*****/
· Fix problem with underlining some Chinese and Japanese characters for some fonts
· Fix problem with 3 or more nested s in a table when the end tags were missing
· Fix clip region error when printing with high dpi resolution
· Fix problem stretching small (like 1 pixel) png images
· Updated documentation
· New samples
· New runtime module version references: 1.4.0.1
· Compatibility
· WARNING: The key generator for publications was updated. Please upgrade your existing implementations of the key generator. PHP, C# codes were updated
· Several new resource and system strings were added
· You should use PNG images for the toolbar buttons now. BMP images are still supported though
· System HTML pages were updated. Be sure to reset them when you load an old project
· SSearchResHTMLCellFormat has updated contents
· Runtime modules accept publications made with HTML Executable 3.3.x
July 25th, 2008· you can now edit the right-click context menu (User Interface => Context Menu): disable default items (such as Home, Back, Add To Favorite...) and/or add your own items (like for the Menu bar).
· new option "only one instance of the publication can be run at a time" to avoid multiple instances of a publication (Security => Global Protection, available for all publication types).
· fixed: some FLV players were not working in HTML Viewer publications (see the "Dependencies" feature in the documentation or Main Demonstration).
· improved support for Flash objects in HTML Viewer publications.
· the "Query" field in the search panel is now focused by default so users can immediately type their query. Note: you need to update the system HTML page named "Search panel" manually for older existing projects.
· new faster HTML parser for the search engine.
· HTML Executable now tells the number of pages and unique words that were found while indexing pages.
· added a workaround for some users who get an "out of memory" error when compressing search engine data.
· map IDs: you can now add your own page IDs (like HTML anchors, HEScript commands) if you want to work with map IDs or the HTML Executable API SDK (available upon request) for users who want to integrate publications with their applications (as help files for instance).
· common error messages when loading publications can now be localized.
· new resource strings related to error messages; they are automatically added to older existing projects.
· change: URLs are no longer displayed in popup titles (unless you set the HEURLShowInPopupTitle global variable to 1).
· new option to disable popup windows in IE publications: NoAutomaticPopup (User interface => IE browser). It mimics the behavior of version 3.2.
· popup windows, HTML dialogs and the Main Window now share the same icon (if "Show publication icon...." is turned on).
· new optional meta tag WindowNoResize for System HTML pages. Set its content to 1 to disable resize of the about box and other dialog boxes by the end user.
· new HEScript function (see NavigateCommand) to display the "Tools > Internet Options" dialog box in IE publications.
· new HEScript function: MessageDlg to display skinnable message boxes.
· change: all default message boxes were converted to skinnable ones (when it was possible).
· fixed: Clicking a /- button in the TOC causes the topic pane to refresh under certain circumstances. When this behavior occurs it causes the topics pane to flicker, which could be somewhat annoying to viewers.
· change: persistent global variables are now saved even if the publication has to exit immediately (Result := True in the "OnPubLoaded" script).
· fixed: default Internet Explorer security settings are now correctly applied for online pages in IE publications.
· change: text files are no longer considered as HTML pages by publications (compatibility with Flash objects that require external text files).
· updated skin engine, HEScript runtime engine, HTML editor, software protections.
· fixed remaining problems with Windows 2000.
· updated skins new skin: Magnificient.
· updated documentation (new topic about Flash objects and external files) & Main Demonstration.
May 14th, 2008· now you can change all images of the toolbar buttons in one click (feature available in the Toolbar editor).
· new toolbar image sets available.
· new browse sequence option: you can configure the Back & Forward buttons to display HTML pages in a specific order (browse sequence) instead of the standard History mode.
· added a global compatibility option for some Flash object problems (for instance if you have a main Flash movie that loads another SWF).
· fixed some problems with Windows 2000.
· popup windows can now open new popup windows too.
· small changes.
Find us on Google+
