check for updates button

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Robert,

It's a question that may need a long answer: it depends on the way  
your app works: with separate stacks you can replace or not.
Are they libs or GUI stacks, etc.

But to get you started:
If you use the 'splash screen' app scheme (with separate stacks) it's  
easy to download new ones that will be operational at relaunch.
Sure, you will prompt the user to do so if needed.
If the whole stuff is in your app, that's more difficult: prefer the  
above solution.
All is possible: even to have an alternate app that will be able to  
relaunch the new one if you download it (that's the way many apps  
work like Firefox for instance)
But Rev allows to separate the engine from the GUI stuff: prefer  
that ;-)

Not sure if that helps or asks questions...

Le 16 juin 07 à 16:27, Robert Mann a écrit :

> I am sorry for lack of info in my question,
> My app is a standalone that has a valentina database where all  
> content is
> stored.
>
> I have a rev app cgi running on my web site that is working, so I  
> have the
> connection to the web and the online database working both from the
> standalone and the cgi app
>
> I have added the "check for updates" button to the standalone app the
> scripting of this button is where I am having trouble I know of two  
> ways to
> check for updates available either text file or put it into the  
> database
> (which is the way I think I will go)
>
> It’s the downloading and installing of the updates I am not sure  
> how to
> handle, or should I use some other software to handle this?
>
> This new standalone Is in the very initial stages so there will be  
> many
> updates in the coming months, but I want to get it out to my  
> customers and
> then add the features as I have time.
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Eric  
> Chatonet
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 10:15 AM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: check for updates button
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> Le 16 juin 07 à 14:09, Robert Mann a écrit :
>
>> Looking for suggestions on what I should use for a "check for updates
>> button" in my app? Has anyone used http://www.manitools.com/
>
> Björnke posted a good suggestion: all this can be handled directly in
> Rev.
> You can explore how Rev makes it or how Chipp's plugins handle this
> kind of thing:
> All this is rev code you can explore :-)
>
> To take the next step, i.e. download and install a new version from
> the web, the "How to Download Data from the Internet" tutorial might
> help you:
> How to Download Data from the Internet
> This stack explains how to test the user connection, an url validity,
> why and how to use get url or load url, retrieve data from framed
> pages, give an account of download progress, manage errors, display
> retrieved data (web pages, stacks, compressed or not), etc.
>
> As usual, you will access this tutorial through "Tutorials Picker" a
> free plugin that interfaces with the So Smart Software website in
> order to display all available tutorials stacks directly from the web.
> You will find it by going to http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/.
> Revolution/Plugins or Tutorials section.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best regards from Paris,
> Eric Chatonet.

Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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