Updating running apps

Sarah Reichelt sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Sun Mar 28 20:13:32 EDT 2010


Thanks for this. I did try using Trevor's framework for one app, but
found it overkill for what I needed.
However I will have to examine it again if it updates like that.

Cheers,
Sarah


On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
> GLX App Framework does this in a very easy way.
>
> Cheers
> andre
>
> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Marty Knapp <martyknapp at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Trevor's GLX Frameworks does this, though I couldn't tell you how!
>>
>> Marty Knapp
>>
>>  I have some apps that when checking for updates, then offer a "Install
>>> & Relaunch" option.
>>> This seems really cool to me, but I haven't worked out how to do it in
>>> my Rev apps.
>>> If I am only updating separate sub-stacks, then I can work it out, but
>>> if I want to update the actual application file what can I do?
>>>
>>> I can get the existing app to download the new version, but then what?
>>> Can a running app replace itself on disk?
>>> Then how to tell it to quit & re-launch?
>>>
>>> On a Mac, I guess I could spit out an AppleScript to quit the app,
>>> re-locate the downloaded app, then restart it but the apps I have
>>> don't seem to start an AppleScript when doing this.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>> P.S. When I say Andre announce revSparkle I got all excited as I
>>> thought he was offering hooks into the Sparkle updater framework
>>> <http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/>, but it was a different Sparkle
>>> :-(
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