OpenEuphoria

Re: Check internet for update?

• Posted by Greg Haberek <ghaberek at gmail.com> Jul 31, 2005
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> Is it possible (of course it is, I mean is it practical in EU) to write
> a routine for my program to test for an internet connecton and then test
> to see if the current program is up to date. I have a site with both
> http and ftp if that helps, and I would like to do it witout user
> prompts.
>
> This is a win32lib based program.

I've been thinking about the same issue. Here's my proposed solution:

1) Setup a directory on your server for each app you've made.
  myw2ebsite.com/app01/
  mywebsite.com/app02/

2) Add a file called "version.txt" into each directory that specifies
the current version of each app.
  mywebsite.com/app01/version.txt
  mywebsite.com/app02/version.txt

3) App01 will download app01/version.txt periodically via
URLDownloadToFile (see Archive), either on its own or via user
request.

4) If App01 determines its curernt version is older than what
version.txt says, it asks the user if he/she would like to download
the update.

5) App01 will download app01/app01_install.exe and execute it. I'll
assume for now that app01_install.exe is an install file made with
Euman's installer.

The entire process seems pretty easy. Once I start knocking out real
programs on a regular basis, maybe I'll write a library standardize
this update process.

~Greg