question about autodownloading an update
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Ok, I have this program (kind of a work-in-progress), and a number of people use it. Up until now, whenever I did an update, I just uploaded the files to a server somewhere, and then sent a notification email to some people (and they download the file(s) at their convenience). However, one of the users asked that I instead implement an update option inside the program where you could click on something, and the program would automatically go out to the internet and download the update and "install" it. The installation of the update is not a problem at all. I can figure that out. However, I've never delved into the practice of using the internet programatically (never even used the browser window object), and I wouldn't know where to start. Can someone please point me in the right direction (know any good articles?), or, if it's simple, show me how I can get the program to just do the following:
- go to a URL and get the contents of a text file (for info checking)
- depending on the info, go to a different URL and download a different file (the update)
-Daniel Typing too fast fro my owngood
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Ok, I have this program (kind of a work-in-progress), and a number of people use it. Up until now, whenever I did an update, I just uploaded the files to a server somewhere, and then sent a notification email to some people (and they download the file(s) at their convenience). However, one of the users asked that I instead implement an update option inside the program where you could click on something, and the program would automatically go out to the internet and download the update and "install" it. The installation of the update is not a problem at all. I can figure that out. However, I've never delved into the practice of using the internet programatically (never even used the browser window object), and I wouldn't know where to start. Can someone please point me in the right direction (know any good articles?), or, if it's simple, show me how I can get the program to just do the following:
- go to a URL and get the contents of a text file (for info checking)
- depending on the info, go to a different URL and download a different file (the update)
-Daniel Typing too fast fro my owngood
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Ok, I have this program (kind of a work-in-progress), and a number of people use it. Up until now, whenever I did an update, I just uploaded the files to a server somewhere, and then sent a notification email to some people (and they download the file(s) at their convenience). However, one of the users asked that I instead implement an update option inside the program where you could click on something, and the program would automatically go out to the internet and download the update and "install" it. The installation of the update is not a problem at all. I can figure that out. However, I've never delved into the practice of using the internet programatically (never even used the browser window object), and I wouldn't know where to start. Can someone please point me in the right direction (know any good articles?), or, if it's simple, show me how I can get the program to just do the following:
- go to a URL and get the contents of a text file (for info checking)
- depending on the info, go to a different URL and download a different file (the update)
-Daniel Typing too fast fro my owngood
Hmm, thats a great idea, i should do this for my app.
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Hmm, thats a great idea, i should do this for my app.