v6.5.439.72
(Monday, August 02, 2010)
| This is a maintenance release with fixes for a number of issues. As always, upgrading to 6.5.439.72 or later of ScriptX is strongly recommended for correct working with all versions of IE.
New- License manager enhanced domain processing.
- cleansx helper checks for the presense of installation using Windows installer (msi) and warns if one is found.
- cleansx helper now works fully on Win64 systems.
- cleansx helper application now also tidies up the .osd file.
Fixed- Shutdown the template and ScriptX template objects properly when the user closes the preview window directly rather than using the "Close" button - applies to all versions of IE.
- Documents do not scale to fit properly in edge cases with IE8.
- Licensed domain names are no longer links in license manager displays and dialogs.
- Selecting a new printer in Windows Vista or later when protected mode on gave the driver defaults, not the currently chosen driver parameters.
- factory.onDocumentComplete() can cause browser exit when the DOM is in unusual states.
- factory.onDocumentComplete() causing (caught) memory exceptions once the event fires.
- Poor performance when printing frames that require scaling to fit.
- Initialisation of ScriptX can cause the hosting IE window to pop to the front.
Changed- Work-around for issue with IE9 preview 3.
- Internal coding improvements.
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v6.5.439.50
(Tuesday, December 15, 2009)
| This release is a maintenance release with fixes for a number of issues with support for IE 8. Upgrading to 6.5.439.50 or later of ScriptX is strongly recommended for correct working with IE8.
New- Optional event log entries when a print job fails with IE 8 and will be re-started (to enable, create a DWORD registry value LogPrintFails in the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MeadCo\ScriptX\Shims\iexplore.exe with a value of 1).
- cleansx.exe included in Corporate Resource Kit.
Fixed- Unable to target a different printer to default in some hosting scenarios and when printing XML documents.
- Intermittent print failure with latest IE8 on slow machines with high loads (blank page syndrome).
- PageSetup() API loosing page headings and footers settings and could lead to reset of copies and collate values with IE8.
- Print background colours and images setting lost when change scale in IE8 preview.
- ScriptXUser.msi now behaves in the same way on all systems for limited rights users (all users on Windows Vista and Windows 7) - it will not remove a cab based install, the msi installation will be halted.
- Fix PrintSetup() and printHtml() print with prompt ignored the users' copies and collate selections on some Windows Vista systems and Windows 7.
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v6.5.439.30
(Friday, July 24, 2009)
| This release is a maintenance release with fixes for a number of issues with support for IE 8.
New- the frame argument for the print or preview methods can now be passed as an object (as before), the object returned by document.getElementById(), or the id of the frame to be printed.
- Fallback support latest license certificate.
Fixed- MaxiPT unable to print frameset as shown with IE8 when no print dialog.
- MaxiPT, if Show page selected in preview and printed, the active frame was printed.
- Copies and collate setting not persisted properly by printSetup() API with IE8.
- Some internal callback notifications missing in MaxiPT.
- Some internal callback notifications missing in IE5.5 style template.
- Notification sequence changed to stop a wait loop exiting too early.
- Intermittent display of print dialog when silent printing requested.
- Vista/Windows 7, erroneous failure on QA test.
Changed- ScriptX Corporate MSI documentation update and clarification.
- Added work-around for Vista pre-Service Pack 1 bug with per user installs when UAC is turned off - this bug stopped ScriptXUser.msi (in ScriptX Corporate) installing properly with an admin user and UAC turned off.
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v6.5.439.12
(Monday, April 27, 2009)
| In addition to fixes for a number of issues, this release introduces support for IE8 final release. Upgrading to 6.5 or later of ScriptX is required for correct working with IE8.
New- Support for IE8 final release - beta versions of IE 8 are not supported.
Fixed- SetPageRange() fixed to work as documented.
- onPageSetup not fired for user initiated pagesetup on IE7 or later.
- onPageSetup incorrectly fired when performing a print on IE7 or later.
- Correct error message being lost and replaced by licensing error in some cases.
- onPageSetup not being fired when page setup used in preview with IE7 or later.
- MaxiPT, erroneous borders on display.
- Specified template not used by printHtml(), always uses the browser default.
- Regression bug - fix for margins wrong if Regional Settings' non-Unicode programs setting did not match the main selection in v6.4.438.06 broke IE 6 behaviour.
- An orientation change by toolbar button in preview was ignored when the document was printed (IE 7 & 8).
Changed- Improved shutdown sequence of OwnQueue() host process - may aleviate some crash cases.
- Margin changes from dragging in print preview are persisted in the session (but as with scripted changes, lost when the document is closed).
- Component broker/host optionally creates a dump on crash.
- File and product versions aligned for more helpful information in IE 8 Manage Add-ons dialogs.
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v6.4.438.06
(Wednesday, July 16, 2008)
| In addition to fixes for a number of issues, this release introduces Enterprise+ licensing, preliminary support for IE8 and support for Windows 2000 and later only. ScriptX v6.4 and later no longer support Windows 9x/NT. For maintenance support of these operating systems, please see ScriptX win9xNT/NT Maintainance Mode Binaries.
New- IE 8, the ability to specify the font to use for page headers and footers.
- ScriptX is now built with the /NXCOMPAT switch indicating compatibility with DEP.
- ScriptX Client Corporate Resource kit includes smsx(w).cab to provide for codebase driven distribution of the MSI installer.
- Enterprise+ licensing provides licensing based on computer domain name. Requires Windows 2000 or later, and is only available as part of ScriptX Client Corporate.
- Version included on License Manager help page.
Fixed- printHtml() can become stuck if a print in the queue fails.
- Margins wrong if Regional Settings' non-Unicode programs setting did not match the main selection.
- No longer dependent upon msi.dll during cab-based install or registration.
- Issues with validating license files on some OS configurations. Fixed problems in the validation of binaries affecting brokers.
- Security Manager can install perMachine licenses on Vista - this will give rise to the standard elevation prompt for permission. On Vista, perUser licenses are now installed out of the lowRights location so are not reliant on virtualisation.
- License Manager can now remove perMachine licenses on Vista.
- Stop a crash if printer details fail to initialise properly. This may (will) result in more "no default printer" error messages.
- Stop a crash when printing a frame in a complex frame arrangement.
- Errors not returned properly from SetWebBrowser().
- Server side printer server not registering properly for multiple use.
- Inconsistent object naming between .cab installed and msi installed versions.
- IE 8, any chosen header/footer font is ignored.
- Windows Installer database fails on Vista.
- Windows Installer database will now uninstall previous installs that used smsx.exe.
Changed- .inf based installers (classic smsx.cab) now check if there is already a MSI based install and if the user has administrator rights.
- ScriptX v6.4 and later no longer support Windows 9x/NT. For maintenance support of these operating systems, please see ScriptX win9xNT/NT Maintainance Mode Binaries.
- Brokers no longer authenticode-check on non-Vista OSs
- Security improvements.
- MCPXHost.exe and MCPXUser.exe renamed to MCSXUser.exe and MCSXHost.exe
- Vista protected mode brokers (MCPXHost.exe and MCPXUser.exe) now have the same version numbers as the main ScriptX modules. Elevated rights broker (MCBroker.exe) added.
- ScriptX Removal Tool marked as requiring administrator privileges for Vista.
- Modifications to core template processing to improve behaviour under IE 8 Beta 1 and Vista.
- Security Manager fallback support for latest certificate.
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v6.3.436.14
(Friday, February 29, 2008)
| In addition to fixes for a number of issues, this release introduces printing directly to an attached printer allowing sending of command languages such as ZPL/EPL for Zebra Label Printers, ScriptX Corporate utilising Windows Installer technology (please contact our sales team) and full compatibility with Windows Server 2008.
New- The rawPrinting object provides the ability to send bytes directly to a printer allowing printing to devices such as label printers.
- Windows Installer based installers and merge modules.
- Security manager method for navigating across domains.
Fixed- Print scaling could not be used with printHtml().
- With IE 7 or later, if Page Setup is used within print preview, scripted configuration of the printer is lost.
- batchPrintPDF method fails to print anything other than PDF documents and may cause a crash with other document types.
- Edge case licenses unable to validate properly on Vista.
MaxiPT: image urls in html header/footer could not use more than one querystring parameter. To enable multiple parameters, parameters must be delimited with && and processAmpersands set to true in the document rules, for example:
document.printingRules = {
diffFirstPageHeadFoot: true,
allPagesHeadFoot: true,
pageRange: "",
printingPass: "all",
mirrorMargins: true,
setupButton: "show",
setupExtraButton: "enabled",
processAmpersands: true
}
- MaxiPT: mixed case relative image urls in html header/footer were not processed correctly and would not print.
- MaxiPT: Attempting to print large selected area intermitently gave scripting errors.
- MaxiPT: Unable to print selection from within preview.
- MaxiPT: "you can only use one copy of ScriptX" error if MaxiPT is specified as the factory object template parameter and the license has not yet been accepted.
- MaxiPT: unable to print selection.
Changed- Improved error message if try to get/set property unsupported by the printer (e.g. duplex).
- On Vista with patched IE 7, refreshes IE broker policies after install.
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v6.3.435.20
(Monday, April 23, 2007)
| In addition to fixes for a number of issues, this release introduces improvements for application licenses and the ability to install license updates without requesting permission from the user (this will only occur for updates of an already accepted license). For printing, this release adds control of the preview zoom factor and, when using the IE 7 style template, the ability to specify the print scale factor.
New- Application licenses can take advantage of clientperiod.
- Revision upgrades for licenses can install silently.
- Method factory.printing.SetPreviewZoom() added to provide control over the zoom factor used on print preview. Please see the sample for full details.
- Method factory.printing.SetPrintScale() added to provide control over the scaling used when printing - IE 7 style template only. Please see the sample for full details.
Fixed- .NET Forms app could not call print preview.
- Security Manager failed to returned specified default dual interface.
- batchPrintPDF() failed under IE 7 Vista Protected mode.
- printHtml() causing crash in unusual circumstances (WinQual report: 36449129).
- Unable to create printer object or run license manager on some systems.
- Hang no longer occurs if factory object used in an iframe in an hta and the iframe does not have application="yes" attribute. Printing will not work without this attribute.
- Failures in creating the printing object were not being reported.
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v6.3.434.26
(Tuesday, December 05, 2006)
| For Vista an upgrade to Script v6.3.434.26 or later is required, this
release or later is recommended for IE 7 on XP.
New- Supports x64 versions of Windows in client side Internet Explorer (32bit). ScriptX is 32 bit code and will therefore only work in the 32 bit version of Internet Explorer on the x64 platform.
- Security Manager errors report the code version number to assist the helpdesk team.
- IE 7 - "Close" and "Print" button added to preview.
- IE 7 - "Paginating Preview..." message while performing preview layout.
Fixed- In [optional] slowmode, License Manager would double report errors.
- Windows Vista - use of OwnQueue() would result in the print of an empty document which was immediately discarded from the queue.
- MaxiPT - script error in the template if page range defined by print settings javascript object.
- IE 7 - click toolbar print button to print, print did not use ScriptX settings.
- Installer smsx.exe failed under Win2K (introduced in #434.12).
- Print preview/printing of scaled to fit frame using IE 7 style
template was unreliable (would print 100% on occasion).
- Printing frame using IE 7 template did not give scaled to fit output.
- IE 7 - if margin measure changed from system default, use of page setup dialog would corrupt margins.
- IE 7 - print preview use of page setup would corrupt margins if margin measure changed from system default.
- IE 7 - print preview use of page setup - changes to printer and/or paper size/source not peristed across usages.
- IE 7 - print preview of frame gave corrupted display if paper size, orientation, etc changed or window resized.
- IE 7 - rather nasty flicker when preview frame.
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v6.3.434.12
(Sunday, October 01, 2006)
| This release is for Internet Explorer 7 on XP compatibility. When using Internet Explorer 7 on XP or Vista an upgrade to Script v6.3 or later is required.
New- MaxiPT object deprecated (but continues to be supported) - use the template parameter instead...
ScriptX object has a new parameter 'template' with value being the url of the custom template to use. This is a licensed feature, other than for the following special 'urls': | Value | Description | | MeadCo://IE55 | The IE 5.5/IE 6 style template | | MeadCo://IE7 | The IE 7 style template - note free usage on all versions of IE 5.5 or later. | | MeadCo://Default | The default template for the IE version in use, i.e. the template matches the browser version. This is the default behaviour. | | MeadCo://maxipt | The MaxiPT template (requires a license). |
Example:
<!-- MeadCo ScriptX Control - Use the IE 7 template for all IE browsers -->
<object id="factory" style="display:none" viewastext
classid="clsid:1663ED61-23EB-11D2-B92F-008048FDD814">
<param name="template" value="MeadCo://IE7" />
</object>
- IE 7 style template available for all IE versions 5.5 and later.
- Frames can now be previewed - see the advanced and frames samples. Previewing a frame is a licensed feature and requires the IE 7 style template.
Fixed- If a template is specified to ScriptX then the print object is initialised so that the template takes effect.
- printHtml() causes crash on Windows NT 4 (bug introduced in 6.2.433.70).
- Compatible with Vista Internet Explorer DEP enabled (Advanced Settings|Enable memory protection).
- A hang was caused if page navigated away from (after user confirmation) while a printHtml() call still processing and that printHtml() had not yet reached an initialised state.
- Crash during window unload if the object had unloaded prematurely (WinQual Report 305474323).
- A scripting error in the document loaded by printHtml() could cause printing to hang.
- Now more lenient on determination if paperSize is given by the printer driver - solves some scripting problems when switching printers.
- Print job status text was empty if job has only one status.
- If user manually changes page setup, the page footer text is lost. [introduced in release 6.2.433.70].
- Licenses containing approved object classids do not display correctly in license acceptance or License Manager applet if any of the listed classids are not valid on the machine.
Changed- Out of process components use MCPXHost.exe as hoster rather than rundll32.exe - ScriptX processes now easily identified in task/process listings.
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v6.2.433.70
(Thursday, June 01, 2006)
| This is a maintenance release
Fixed- McAfee VirusScan interferes with license acceptance dialogs.
- Per User licenses were not listing in License Manager when the license was accepted on Vista IE 7 running in protected mode.
- Security Manager reporting wrong error message on APIs if Zeepe is not installed.
- Closed potential vulnerabilities.
- A number of APIs that required a license were silently failing when no license was present rather than explicitly reporting license required.
- printHtml() using a direct string with the html:// psuedo protocol could cause a "Server threw an exception" error.
- Use of MaxiPT template caused IE window to drop to back in the z-order after printing.
- Security Manager licenses could not be accepted if IE 5.0 was installed and Zeepe was also installed.
- License Manager applet not listing licenses with IE 5.0.
- License Manager UI links not working.
Changed- Security Manager never uses Zeepe implemented dialogs, even when Zeepe is installed.
- Removed unused legacy code.
- Printing host (printHtml) removed redundant code, the host now uses enhanced security under XP SP2 and later.
- MCPrintX.htm custom template is no longer installed to the Windows /Help/ folder - templates are obtained from resources.
- Single installer always installs all components.
- Improvements in License Manager UI. Always uses own UI even if Zeepe is installed.
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