These Winbuilder commands have not been implemented in PEBakery.
When the SHOW flag was supplied with the DirCopy command Winbuilder would show the operating system's file copy progress dialog.
When this parameter was used, WinBuilder would rename the directory to a random name, and then execute the delete process in the background. PEBakery has a more reliable implementation of DirDelete making this flag unnecessary.
No longer used. Can be accomplished with other commands.
This command was originally designed for extracting resources from executable files and is no longer used. Resource extraction can be accomplished more effectively with other tools (eg. Resource Hacker).
These commands are no longer used in Winbuilder and have been replaced by RegHiveLoad/RegRead/RegWrite/etc.
No longer used. Originally this command would display a dialog containing a license agreement and force the user to accept or reject the license. Because this required user interaction during the build it was rarely used because it slowed down the build process.
No documented use. Originally this command would read Winbuilder style escaped characters #$p and #$q as literal strings rather then escaping them as ##$p and ##$q.
This section was an optional section exclusive to script.project. If it is present, during build the section was processed before the first [Process] command/line of every script.
This command is largely a duplicate of the functionality of the [Process] section of script.project.
This section was an optional section exclusive to script.project. If it is present, during build this section was processed after the last [Process] line of every script.
If required this functionality can be reproduced on a script-by-script basis with the System,OnScriptExit command.
This command would perform an user defined action if a specified executable was found to be running. It has not been used in any active projects.
This command was introduced in Winbuilder 071/072 in order to provide a way to enumerate driver classes in the registry. It has not been used an any active projects.
This command was a hack to allow writing unchecked values to the registry via a binary format because Delphi 7 doesn't support Unicode or 64bit QWORDS. It never did work correctly in Winbuilder and is no longer required as PEBakery has native support for QWORDs and Unicode strings in RegRead and RegWrite.
Winbuilder's implementation of the Run command allows for passing a parameter by reference using the OUT:<var> directive.
This functionality has been replaced by the RunEx, LoopEx, and LoopLetterEx commands.
These functions were used to convert between the ANSI charset and the DOS charset, and were useful when dealing with special characters like "umlauts" and other similar markings. DOS charset is no longer used or supported in modern operating systems.
This command was used to force Winbuilder into compatibility mode with previous version when internal changes were made to the way variables were handled. PEBakery is modern implementation of the WinBuilder 082 feature set, older versions are not supported.
PEBakery uses the .NET framework and will run in either x86 or x64 (AnyCPU), therefore WOW64 redirection is unnecessary.
Was used in older projects to detect if Winbuilder was running in a terminal server session. This was problematic because of the way older versions of Terminal server handled writing certain configuration files. No longer used by any active projects and should not be necessary with modern versions of Windows.
This command was originally was intended to allow a developer to disable logging of API/Macro commands in order to keep the build log from inflating. PEBakery has options that allow the user to toggle logging of Macro commands making this command unnecessary.
Following Winbuilder's default behavior PEBakery will always split parameters.
WinBuilder's implementation of TxtAddLine allowed for an Action called Place which would allow the developer to specify a line number where the text should be inserted. This feature was deprecated in PEBakery due to lack of perceived usefulness.
Winbuilder's Webget implementation had multiple issues and was completely rewritten for PEBakery. The MD5/Command/Timeout flags were deprecated and modern hash verification commands implemented.
These commands are fully functional within PEBakery but will be removed in a future release. Some commands are disabled by default but can be enabled by a compatibility option. It is advised to avoid using these commands in your projects and replace them as soon as possible.
This command was added to Winbuilder in an attempt to work around the limit of 9 parameters that could be passed to a Run/Exec command.
The intention was that multiple parameters could be "packed" into an array/list and passed as a single parameter to the called section where they could be expanded back to their original variables, however the command is totally broken in Winbuilder 082 so projects never made use of the functionality.
PEBakery supports an infinite number of section parameters, as well as list structures via the List command so Pack Param is no longer necessary.
Legacy branch conditions such as NOTEXISTFILE and NOTEXISTDIR are deprecated in favor of using the Not operator (eg. If,Not,EXISTDIR...). This is the recommended syntax in Winbuilder so legacy branch conditions are disabled by default in PEBakery. They can be enabled with a compatibility option.
WinBuilder's Loop implementation allows incrementing alphabetically as well as numerically. This behavior is disabled in PEBakery but can be enabled with a compatibility option. PEbakery supports alphabetically looping with the LoopLetter command.
Winbuilder allows the Set command to modify interface control values, however usage is inconsistent with other behavior of the Set command. PEBakery deprecated this behavior in favor of the more flexible WriteInterface command. Winbuilder's Set behavior can be toggled with a compatibility option.
Replaced by Math,Div
Success of conversion to short path depends on registry value HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation, thus this command cannot be guaranteed to work properly in every system.
Replaced by Math,Mul
Currently PEBakery always returns True to this command.
User Account Control (UAC) is enabled by default in all supported versions of Windows making this command largely unnecessary. Furthermore many users are not aware of the dangers of disabling UAC, therefore it is better to design your project to work on UAC enabled systems rather then encourage users to disable security features in order to build a project.
This command is obsolete in Winbuilder 082 as was originally implemented in version 075/076 for compatibility reasons replacing System,RefreshVars after engine improvements made the command largely unnecessary. Prior to Winbuilder 075 variables defined in the [Variables] section required a manual Refresh/Rebuild once they were dynamically modified with the Set command. For further reading check out this post.
Currently PEBakery resets variables to the original value as it was defined in the [Variables] section.
This command is broken in Winbuilder 082, and it was thought it would be better to implement this as a macro.
Winbuilder's Visible,<control>,PERMENENT command will be deprecated in favor of PEBakery's WriteInterface,Visible command.
Winbuilder presets a number of constant/fixed variables. Most of these variables contain information that can be easily obtain through other means and some don't have any practical use at all. The PEBakery team believes that the project/script author should be the one to decide what variables they want defined and what they should be named, not PEBakery. For this reason PEBakery limits itself to defining essential variables such as %BaseDir%, %ProjectDir%, %ScriptFile% and leaves the decision to define additional variables up to the project/script author to implement as they see fit.
The following variables have been deprecated. A small subset of environment variables can be enabled using the compatibility option Enable Environment Variables however it is strongly advised to use the alternative methods listed in the table below.
| Variable | Description | PEBakery Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| %FileVersion% | Winbuilder returned the file version of Winbuilder.exe | PEBakery provides this information via the %PEBakeryVersion% variable. |
| %WBExe% | The path to Winbuilder.exe | This is PEBakery, not Winbuilder. |
| %WBLanguage% | Winbuilder Language | This is PEBakery, not Winbuilder. |
| %AppMode% | Winbuilder returns wbaNormal if the program is started normally. |
This is PEBakery, not Winbuilder. |
| %RegDataType% | Winbuilder sets this variable to the data type of the registry value accessed via the most recent RegRead command. |
Not used in any projects. No valid use cases in active projects. |
| %Tools% | Winbuilder sets this to %BaseDir%\Projects\Tools |
You can set this to whatever you want. |
| %Day% | Winbuilder returned the current weekday. | Use StrFormat,Date,%Day%,"d" |
| %Year% | Winbuilder returned the current year. | Use StrFormat,Date,%Year%,"yyyy" |
| %Month% | Winbuilder returned the current month. | Use StrFormat,Date,%Month%,"m" |
| %TempDir% | Windows Temp Directory | Use System,GetENV,"TEMP",%TempDir% |
| %ProgramFilesDir% | Windows Program Files Directory | Use System,GetENV,"ProgramFiles",%ProgramFilesDir% |
| %WindowsDir% | Windows Directory | Use System,GetENV,"windir",%WindowsDir% |
| %UserName% | The name of the current user. | Use System,GetENV,"USERNAME",%UserName% |
| %UserProfile% | The current user's home directory. | Use System,GetENV,"USERPROFILE",%UserProfile% |
| %ProcessorType% | Winbuilder returns the operating system architecture as defined by SYSTEM_INFO. | Use System,GetENV,"PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE",%ProcessorType% |
| %HostOS% | Winbuilder returns a string representing the current OS (Ex. Win7). Returns an empty string in recent versions of Windows. | Consider checking the Windows version/build number instead. |
| %Wow64% | Winbuilder returns True if it is running under a 64bit operating system. |
Modern operating systems are all 64bit. If you still need to test this condition consider using System,GetENV,"PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE",%ProcessorType% |
| %Wow64Dir% | Winbuilder returns the path of the WindowsOnWindows64 subsystem. Typically C:\Windows\SysWOW64 |
Use System,GenENV,"windir",%WindowsDir% Set,%Wow64Dir%,"%WindowsDir%\SysWOW64 |
| %Programs64% | Winbuilder returns the path where 64bit Program Files are stored. | Use System,GetENV,"ProgramFiles",%ProgramFilesDir% |