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Resource Tuner Console: News and Updates
[February 19, 2024] • Resource Tuner Console 2.24
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What's new:
Version 2.24 is a maintenance and bugfix release.
- Improved detection of files with non-standard PE headers and correct setting of the SizeOfHeaders field in the PE header.
- Resolved a custom resource property access error.
- Corrected the UserErrorLevel property to return the accurate user-defined exit codes.
- Updated the script code templates.
- Updated the UPX Unpacker plug-in.
- Output messages are now available in multiple languages based on the user's locale: English, Chinese, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
Resource Tuner Console Version History
[June 24, 2022] • Resource Tuner Console 2.22
What's new:
Version 2.22 is a maintenance and bugfix release.
- RTC is Windows 11 and Server 2022 Ready.
- Improved manipulation of data in the PE files.
- Fixed errors that occaissionally occurred when processing large executable files (of 1GB or larger).
- Other minor improvements to the overall performance and stability.
[March 12, 2019] • Resource Tuner Console 2.20
What's new:
Version 2.20 is a maintenance and bugfix release.
- Bugfix: RTC produced an Access Violation error when the system language and locale was set to Japanese or Chinese.
- Bugfix: Hieroglyphic characters were incorrectly displayed in the output console window.
- Updated the UPX Unpacker plug-in.
- Fixed several minor issues.
[August 07, 2017] • Resource Tuner Console 2.10
What's new:
Version 2.10 is a maintenance and bugfix release.
- Tested and prepared for the new Windows upgrades.
- Bugfix: RTC failed on WiX and Wise based setup files.
- Bugfix: Unicode characters were incorrectly displayed in the output console window.
[June 01, 2015] • Resource Tuner Console 2.03
What's new:
Version 2.03 is a maintenance and bugfix release.
- Bugfix: Fixed the /A ("Append Log") command line option error.
- Bugfix: Error when reading and writing binary .RES files.
- Fixed several minor issues.
[Jan 07, 2015] • Resource Tuner Console 2.02
What's new:
- Improved manipulation of data in the PE files.
- Bugfix: In certain conditions, RTC failed to save the modified file.
[Oct 14, 2014] • Resource Tuner Console 2.01
What's new:
- Bugfix: Repeated save operations caused corrupted files.
- Fixed several minor issues.
[Aug 01, 2014] • Resource Tuner Console 2.00
What's new:
Version 2 is all new and completely rewritten: it's better, faster and smarter.
- Added two more ways of replacing Icon/Cursor entries with the ChangeIcon/Cursor functions.
- Added the UserErrorLevel property to return the user-defined exit codes.
- The main procedures became functions and now return True if the operation is successful.
- The SortGroupCursor/Icon procedures are no longer required, now RTC 2 automatically performs these operations.
[July 01, 2013] • Resource Tuner Console 1.93
What's new:
Version 1.93 is a maintenance and bugfix release:
- Now supports direct access to data and manipulation of data in a PE file.
- Now RTC supports multiple instances running at the same time.
- Bugfix: RTC didn't actually delete the original resource until saving the file.
- RTC is now Windows 8 Ready.
[March 10, 2011] • Resource Tuner Console 1.92
What's new:
- Bugfix: RTC failed if the Windows Regional Settings were set to Portuguese Brazilian.
- Bugfix: Microsoft's signtool.exe corrupted RealBasic based applications after using RTC on them.
- Fixed several minor issues.
[Sep 28, 2010] • Resource Tuner Console 1.91
What's new:
- Bugfix: RTC failed to open file if the absolute file path contained '..' characters.
- Bugfix: RTC didn't recognize small icons in the PNG format.
- Updated the script code templates.
[Jun 01, 2010] • Resource Tuner Console 1.90
What's new:
Version 1.90 offers new options for handling executable files:
- Now supports editing self extracting EXE files created using WinZip Self-Extractor.
- Now supports restoring the original file timestamps on the file after saving. Added the SetFileTime function for setting CreationTime, LastAccessTime and LastWriteTime for a specified file.
- Bugfix: RTC failed overwriting files opened from an unmapped network drive.
- Updated the script code templates.
[Sep 21, 2009] • Resource Tuner Console 1.81
What's new:
Version 1.81 is a maintenance and bugfix release:
- Resource Tuner Console is now Windows 7 Ready.
- Bugfix: RTC failed on files created using InstallShield 2009.
- Fixed several issues (mostly minor).
[Aug 05, 2009] • Resource Tuner Console 1.80
What's new:
- Now the ChangeIcon procedure supports adding hi-res Vista icons from Icon files (.ICO) that contain compressed .PNG images. Previously, RTC could only add Vista icons from stand-alone .PNG files.
- CRITICAL: Changed the way to specify relative paths to the target files in the scripts. Please update your scripts.
- Improved processing of huge executable files (of 600MB or larger).
- Added new exit codes.
- Updated the script code templates.
- Bugfix: The "Scriptfile not found" error message didn't log.
[Sep 10, 2008] • Resource Tuner Console 1.70
What's new:
- Added the ChangeCustomResource procedure. Now RTC supports editing any common data types that stored as custom resources: major graphic files (.GIF, .PNG, .JPG), sound (.WAV, .MIDI) and video (.AVI) files, or binary files (.CAB, etc).
- Now supports editing cursors. Added the ChangeCursor procedure.
- Added the SortGroupCursor procedure for sorting cursors in the Cursor group according to their size and color depth.
- Added the RebaseImage procedure for changing the image base address. This will let your DLLs have their image base set manually to avoid conflicts when your application loads a few DLLs having the same base address.
- Updated the script code templates and batch files.
- Updated the UPX Unpacker plug-in.
[July 10, 2008] • Resource Tuner Console 1.62
What's new:
Version 1.62 is a maintenance and bugfix release:
- Updated the UPX Unpacker plug-in.
- Now the log directory defaults to the Application Data directory.
- Bugfix: In certain conditions, the resources appeared to be re-ordered.
[Apr 14, 2008] • Resource Tuner Console 1.61
What's new:
Version 1.61 is a maintenance and bugfix release:
- Updated the UPX Unpacker plug-in.
- Updated script code templates and batch files.
- Localized output in Italian, depending upon the user's locale.
[Jan 15, 2008] • Resource Tuner Console 1.60
What's new:
- Added the UPX Unpacker plug-in.
- The new PluginsProxy object allows managing plug-ins.
- Added the ability to override the command-line options in the script.
- Added the "/E" command line switch, which instructs the program to always use English for its output.
- Added the StripEmptyResSection property to flag the empty resource section for deletion when saving the file.
- An improved algorithm for the resource editing engine, which makes it possible to work with non-typical PE files, for instance produced with REALbasic.
- Updated script code templates and batch files.
Resource Tuner Console Version History
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