App restart after update

[François Chaplais]

Le 17 juin 08 à 22:21, Chipp Walters a écrit :

> Bill,
>
> Typically re-launching is done with a helper app, which is sort of a
> Catch-22 issue with Rev-- because if you downloaded a new engine  
> for your
> app, who's to say the helper app's engine isn't going to have a  
> problem
> launching as well.
>
> Of course, you could also get tricky and try and create batch  
> scripts to
> launch your new apps, but there's a lot of issues with it as well--
> especially Virus checkers who don't approve of such.
>
> I've found the best way around this is to create a splash-screen  
> app which
> is only the engine and load the app from stacks, which are easily  
> updated
> and downloaded w/out issue. When the splash-screen app launches, it  
> can also
> look for a new version of itself as well, and point users to a  
> webpage to
> download the new splash-screen app. I prefer downloading/installing  
> from a
> web page as then there are ZERO issues with proxy servers or any buggy
> transport code which might be in the splash-screen app.
>
> I've had thousands of downloads of various products we sell using this
> technique and very few issues.
>
> best of luck,
> Chipp
> _______________________________________________

another advantage of this technique is that you can keep a record of  
your udpates. Handy if the new version is buggy!

cheers,
	François