App restart after update

[Bill Vlahos]

Richard,

Interesting idea. Thanks.

Bill Vlahos

On Jun 17, 2008, at 5:59 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Bill Vlahos wrote:
> > Quitting the application after the download is easy but how do I
> > have the computer automatically relaunch it?
> >
> > I would need this for Macintosh and Windows and Linux.
>
> Uninstallers face a similar issue, since they need to delete an app  
> but of course an app can't delete itself.
>
> Their approach may work for your circumstance as well:
>
> An uninstaller commonly copies itself to the local temp directory  
> and then launches that copy to do the deed.
>
> With Rev 2.9 you can now get the temp folder on all three platforms  
> with:
>
>  get specialFolderPath("temporary")
>
> Temp directories are automatically cleared out by the system  
> periodically (often on restart), so while it does mean another copy  
> of an app somewhere it's not one that will live for long after it's  
> needed.
>
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Managing Editor, revJournal
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