GetMax - BlitzMax Downloader

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Otus(Posted 2008) [#1]
GetMax does what its name says: Gets the latest (SVN) version of BlitzMax for you.

Upsides: has a simple GUI, does NOT require an SVN client and is small.

Downsides: rather slow, does not update and has no error handling.

Source available below.



Updated with SebHoll's changes.

Source:



GaryV(Posted 2008) [#2]
No offense, but based on the latest issue with EXEs, you might want to release the source now, as I doubt many will touch an EXE right now.


Otus(Posted 2008) [#3]
I get your point. EDIT: Source released. Messy but works.


GaryV(Posted 2008) [#4]
Should be a useful utility for folks ;)


Grisu(Posted 2008) [#5]
Sounds great.

Would be awesome if such a downloader would be included in the IDE.


MikeHart(Posted 2008) [#6]
Thanks a ton!


Brucey(Posted 2008) [#7]
Would be awesome if such a downloader would be included in the IDE.

Except of course you'll need to have MinGW installed to use the source.
And it's a lot to download each time you want to check if something has been updated.

But otherwise, it does usefully fill a gap :-)


SebHoll(Posted 2008) [#8]
Nice work!

I've tweaked the UI slightly and swapped the byte-by-byte stream code for the much the faster ReadBytes()/WriteBytes() alternatives:

Otus, feel free to update your original post if you approve.




Otus(Posted 2008) [#9]
Nice work!

I've tweaked the UI slightly and swapped the byte-by-byte stream code for the much the faster ReadBytes()/WriteBytes() alternatives:

Otus, feel free to update your original post if you approve.


Thanks, I updated with your changes and a couple of other issues.


dawlane(Posted 2008) [#10]
Nice work. Makes life a little easier than using SVN all we need now for it to do is update only the new or changed files. I will test this on the Mac and Ubuntu.

Edit: Ubuntu's ok. But for some reason it will only work on a Mac within the IDE in debug any ideas? (I'm not a big Mac OS X user)