Have any of you written a updater?
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| I am looking for an updater that will update my games files when a new version is out. I am rather bad with file reading/writing, so I was wondering if any of you have written one that I can use, or havesome code to work off of. |
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| I have not looked, but I would be shocked if a simple online updater was not in the code archives. |
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| I did look last night, but I didn't find anything. I'll look closer. |
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| Nope. Nothing there. |
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| If you do write your own, here's something to keep in mind: 1) A running program can't overwrite itself, so if you wish to be able to update the main executable as well, then you'll need to have your updater as a seperate process so the main .exe won't be locked. (Either that, or you need to store it under a temporary name after download, and somehow flip/rename the .exe's) 2) Windows Vista's UAC won't let you add files under c:\program files after the fact from outside an installer, so if you have your program stored there you're bound to run into updater issues on some PC's |
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| Swampdonkey created a utility which you may like, xpatcher2, see http://www.gothasoft.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67%3Asoftware-xpatcher2&catid=20%3Aproducts&Itemid=77 |
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| BlitzGet in the code archives essentially provides the functionality. By which it can be used to read a web-based file, check against the program version, and if necessary, dowwnload a set of files. |
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| Xpatcher2 looks nice, but BlitzGet is Free. I make free games, so I try to stick with free stuff. While it is more work, it should be able to do what I need. I'll keep the UAC in mind. |
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| Innosetup can do it for you if you dig deep. |
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| I've written most of it with BlitzGet, so no changing now. |
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