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DESCRIPTION
VISE X helps users create installation programs for the distribution of software. You can package many files together into one installer, and easily distrubute your software package to others. You can customize the installer to place files in specified areas of their computer, run AppleScripts during installation, allow multiple language installs, and build CD-ROM installers quickly.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.3:
  • To make our licensing process more convenient, we have added the ability to purchase and renew VISE X licenses online. You can purchase a license by visit- ing http://www.mindvision.com/pricing.asp and clicking the “Buy” button for your level of distribution. When it’s time to renew, VISE X will remind you and provide the option to purchase a renewal from within the application.
  • Installers now provide a “Force Scroll before Continue” feature for Read Me files, which matches the functionality that is already available for license agree- ments. With this new feature, you can require users to scroll to the bottom of the Read Me content before they can continue with the installation. See “Adding Read Me and License Agreements to the Installer” on page10-10.
  • Installers now write uninstall logs to the Installer Logs folder. The previous ver- sion wrote these logs to the root of the target drive for the installation.
  • Installers now show a note graphic in the confirmation dialogs for actions such as renaming a file. The previous version showed a stop sign graphic in these instances.
  • VISE X can now store and install files that have 512x512 pixel custom icons. Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard introduced support for the larger icons, which previously had a limit of 128x128 pixels.
  • With the previous version, installers would shut down all running applications before installing a package that had the “Restart after Installing” option set. Shut- ting down applications in this instance is now conditional based on the “Shut- down Applications Before Installing” option on the Behavior tab of Installer Settings. If the package option is enabled but the Installer Settings option is not, the installer will install the corresponding package without shutting down appli- cations first. (There were no changes to the conditions that determine whether a restart is suggested or forced after the installation of the package.)
  • The aliases that installers create for bundled applications now use the same cus- tom icons as the original items.
  • VCTs that are exported as XML will now include a new key, AllowUFSInstall. This key allows VISE X to retain the “Allow Installation to UFS Volumes” setting when creating VCTs from XML.
  • We have updated our “Generic External Code” sample for compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard.
  • We have added the filename extension “.xdf” to VISEData, the single cab file that VISE X creates for web installers that use byte-range downloads. This change makes the filename compliant with newer HTTP versions that have the option to require extensions for web server files.
  • This update allows you to localize the installer interface for additional languages. By localizing your own language files and adding them to VISE X, you can build Information for Installer VISE Users 1–3 installers to support additional languages.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.1 or later.


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Developer:MindVision Software
Downloads:13,347
  - Version d/l:346
Utilities:Compression
License:Demo
Date:24 Apr 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$275.00
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    VISE X User Reviews (13 posts)Write A Review
    Feb 16 2007
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    MACUPDATE109  A VISE installer is a bit like the glue of a label that does not easily come off something you've just bought: annoying, and a certain way of finding out a company does not care about its customers.

    VISE installers are vile pieces of crap that provide no easy way of seeing exactly what files are going to be installed. The interface is clumsy and has not significantly evolved since 1997. Some installers quit every other application before running - what is that about? Others crap files with bad permissions all over my disk, with no easy way of fixing those permissions. Please.

    VISE is a practical joke Mindvision has been playing on the Mac community for too long. If you want me to take your product seriously and really, really require an installer, use Apple's.  (Version 3.2)

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    Aug 4 2006
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    MIKE RATT  To prevent users from hiding the installer interface, VISE X installers now disable the "Hide" menu item, and do not support use of Command+H.

    Bad idea, MindVision.  (Version 3.1)

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    Aug 3 2006

    LUMPY  Why on earth would you disable hiding the installer (command-h) on OS X?

    Apple's installer (and software update utility) support hiding which allows you to continue work in another program without having the installer potentially in the way - courtesy of OS X's famously protected memory architecture.

    "VISE X installers now disable the "Hide" menu item, and do not support use of Command+H."  (Version 3.1)

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    Dec 2 2005
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    SANDBAGGER77  My Mom alwaays said if you can't say something good about someone, dont say anything at all. Thank goodness it does not apply to inanimate objects, especially one that is TERRIBLE....!! Why anyone would throw away $275.00 for this lousy program is beyond me. I am forever having problems with programs loaded with VISE. Give me your money, at least I will smile at you and put one on your face.........lol Well to put it in today's terms, the program SUCKS....!! and is over rated if rated at all....? SUCKS BIG TIME, dont buy it.......!! Sorry VISE, but if it were a good product I would I would never have to write this commment to save others their hard earned money.  (Version 2.0)

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