Patch Maker 1.3

[Yves]

Quick update for Patch Maker.

There was some useless debugging code that was preventing the build feature from working on some rare machines.

Other changes of version 1.3 (just a reminder, as it was already mentioned in another thread, just in case you didn't see this version yet) :

- new Icon File option in the Option tab, that allows you to change the icon of the update program.
- files to remove are now removed before the other files are installed, in order to reduce the required free space on the destination drive.
- the old help file has been replaced.
- the old UI bugs in the editor have been fixed.

[ASD]

Thanks for update.
However, the imetip.dll_unloaded crash problem still not fixed...

Question. The same mfa is build with different build number of MMF2 (e.g. update 251 to 255.). the PM will be detect differences that different of build number?

[ASD]

I've created a patch file by comparing the EXE with the R255 and R251 that was created using the same MFA.
As a result, the size of the file that was created has become very big.

Is this because the core section has been modified with update to the R255 from R251 in the Japanese version?

[Yves]

Are you sure the EXE was created with the EXACT same MFA? Are you absolutely sure no changes have been made in the MFA in the meantime? If so that's a little odd, I don't think there are important format changes between the build 251 and the build 255, but I might be wrong.

PS: anyway, the MMF2 applications are not good candidate for patches, as they contain zipped data blocks. As soon as you change a single bit the entire block od data will change, and if the block is big Patch Maker will be unable to find differences between both files.

[ASD]

Yes. I'm used same MFA, it is not any changes.
I made EXE with build 255. Then I made EXE with build 251 after downgrade from build 255.

I'll send tested MFA to you by PM. Could you test it?