Here we go again. A new beta version of WinBatch+Compiler is available. This released is focused on a new variable data type, INT64 or type 8192. In the era of big files, big money, and big everything else, it is time for WIL to have native 64-bit integers. The hard part was doing so without breaking existing scripts.
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Release notes:
WB 2021C May 12, 2021 (Beta)
DLL 6.21cuc First appearing in WB 2021C
Changed multi-user licensing to function like single-user licensing so that license numbers
only need to be entered on two occasions instead of four to license all applications and
utilities in a distribution.
Address an issue in the WinBatch Navigator script that prevented the 32-bit version from
removing 64-bit multi-user license information and the 64-bit version from removing 32-bit
multi-user license information when the "Remove License Numbers" button is selected. This
change only affects multi-user license installations.
Added a new 64-bit integers WIL variable type(8192). The interpreter creates a 64-bit integer
WIL variable whenever an integer value greater or less than the maximum or minimum 32-bit
signed integer is assigned to a WIL variable.
WIL operators that act on integers now support 64-bit integers. These include assignment,
relational, arithmetic, and bitwise operators. However, binary arithmetic operations on
two 32-bit integers will not produce 64-bit results even if the result overflows or
underflows the maximum or minimum 32-bit integer values. To obtain a 64-bit result one of the
operands must be a 64-bit integer. To produce a 64-bit result from 32-bit only operands and
avoid overflows or underflows use the new Int64 function on at least one of the 32-bit
integer operand.
Added the 64-bit integer option (2) to the WinResources function's format parameter. The
option causes the function to return a 64-bit integer when the return value is too large or
too small to be represented by a 32-bit integer without loss of information.
Added a 64-bit integer option (2) to the following functions' format parameter:
DirSize
DiskFree
DiskSize
FileSize
FileSizeEx
The option causes each function to return a 64-bit integer.
The following functions have been modified to support new 64-bit integer WIL variables and
manifest constants as input:
IsFloat
IsNumber
IsInt
ObjectType
VarType
Avg
Min
Max
Note1: The Min, Max, and Average functions use floating point numbers internally. Since
numbers larger than 9,007,199,254,740,991 or less than -9,007,199,254,740,991 cannot
be represented in the floating point format without loss of precision these
functions will produce inexact results on 64-bit integers that are very big or very
small.
Note2: The Int function truncates 64-bit integer constants to 32-bits when the integer
is larger or smaller than the maximum or minimum 32-bits integer.
All functions that can convert integer input to a string convert 64-bit integers to strings.
The FileInfoToArray has a new flag parameter value of 4. This value causes the function to
return file size information as 64-bit integers. If the 4 flag value is combined with 1
(huge numbers), the 4 is ignored.
New functions:
Int64(s/u/i/i64/f:x)
Returns the passed in values as a 64-bit integer.
x: value to convert to a 64-bit integer.
GetTickCount64()
Returns the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since the system started. This
function is similar to its namesake GetTickCount except that a system would need to run for
roughly 106,751,991,167.3 days instead of 49.7 days before the return value turns negative
and eventually wraps back to 0.
Dialog Editor
Fixed a problem displaying the editor's help file topics by adding a workaround for a defect
in the Windows help system.
