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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