The first thing you will notice with last night's 13A1.02 build update is that the WEBUPDATER graphic now sports a "C6" prominently on the window inside a white oval. This is so that you can easily distinguish the updaters when you have both to contend with. The C7 WEBUPDATER will display a "C7" inside the oval pictured below.
Application/DCT Auto-Backup Feature
Last night's build update also introduces a new feature available both for C6 and C7, the ability to turn on auto-backup for your applications and dictionaries. Any time your application is re-generated due to changes made by the "Save" button, a backup is made of the application as it was immediately after the last "Save". This feature is OFF by default but can be turned on and configured using a new support application called HNDBACKUPCONFIG, pictured below.
From this app interface you can set the backup directory, turn auto-backup on/off and manage older backups by either deleting them or zipping them into a compressed batch first and then deleting them. This backs up both the .APP file and the .DCT of your application. At the moment, it is doing this rather aggressively (making more backups than is really necessary) I'm working on fine tuning this a bit to cut down on duplicate backups but initially I'm erring on the side of more, rather than less.
Suggestions on the operation of this are welcome.
New Cross Installer Feature
There's a new C7 Cross installer feature in last night's update. This lets you configure some C7 application options at the time of install. It also lets you see how these options are currently configured, even if you don't intent do change them. The graphic below illustrates what this looks like:
Note that this throws a configurable location at you asking where you'd like your C7 to open. This will default to the "Default Project Location" currently configured on your C7 options. Since this Cross-installer does not (and will not) install C7 examples this field is more informational than useful. However you can change here the default directory where C7 will open up when you click it's open solution menu.
The other items illustrate how I like to configure my C7 "Application Options". A similar feature is planned for the C7 Webupdater, which will provide you with C7 equivalents of the C6 demo applications and dictionaries. In that case you can determine where you want to install your CHT demo applications. I'll provide a "Tools" menu item that automatically points C7 to open up on those demo apps when you want to "play" with them, regardless of where you decide to install them.
Thats all for now.
Cheers...
Gus Creces
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January 15, 2009
