Programmatically updating my app

[Greg Hill]

See the binaries group. I just reposted it.
I posted an image file that should be downloaded and put in the same folder
as the form. I just wanted you to see it with an image rather than without.
You can put your own image of course.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Greg Hill

Greg,
Nothing in binaries, but found a post in this ng searching for FTP that
refers to clFTP.cc written by Dan Barbaria 06/24/2002 with credits to
others. Is that the one you may be using?
Thanks,
Mark

I'd like to get a better way for my users to update their app instead
of
me either sending them an email with attachment (which often does not
get
thru with all the security against an exe or even zip files), and
instead
of walking them thru a download from my website (don't like posting
there
for too long also due to security, so it is time consuming to post it
and
then arrange a time for them to do the download).

Mark,
There is an ftp solution for this, I forgot the who to credit for it but
I
believe if you find it the programmers name is in it.
Look for upgrade.wfm in the binaries folder, its a rather old post so
make
sure you get the old post from the server.
If you have trouble finding it let me know. I will modify the one I have
that came from it.
I would recommend as mentioned above by Rich, use the DEO approach rather
than exe or zip files.
Just post all your deo files on the ftp site and your good.
Greg Hill

[Mark]

Greg,

Nothing in binaries, but found a post in this ng searching for FTP that refers to clFTP.cc written by Dan Barbaria 06/24/2002 with credits to others. Is that the one you may be using?

Thanks,
Mark

I'd like to get a better way for my users to update their app instead of
me either sending them an email with attachment (which often does not get
thru with all the security against an exe or even zip files), and instead
of walking them thru a download from my website (don't like posting there
for too long also due to security, so it is time consuming to post it and
then arrange a time for them to do the download).

Mark,
There is an ftp solution for this, I forgot the who to credit for it but I
believe if you find it the programmers name is in it.
Look for upgrade.wfm in the binaries folder, its a rather old post so make
sure you get the old post from the server.
If you have trouble finding it let me know. I will modify the one I have
that came from it.
I would recommend as mentioned above by Rich, use the DEO approach rather
than exe or zip files.
Just post all your deo files on the ftp site and your good.
Greg Hill

[O. D. Williams]

I'd like to get a better way for my users to update their app instead of me either sending them an email with attachment (which often does not get thru with all the security against an exe or even zip files.

I struggled with this problem for two years. Found the perfect solution. I switched from INNO to SetupBuilder by Lindersoft (http://www.lindersoft.com/).

The Developer Edition includes an automatic update feature. Now my dBase programs (5.7 and 2.6.14) have a menu option to "Check For Program Updates" and another to "Check for Help/Documentation Updates".

SetupBuilder can include an amazing little program named Wupdate.exe which handles the update automatically. Problem solved.

-O. D. Williams-