I've never tried it before, let us know if you get it working. regards,
Phil. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neven MacEwan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 9:32 AM Subject: Re: [DUG]: Location of EXE > Phil > > The assumption has been that you are running Workstations and Servers, 90% > of our > new systems are running TS and this would be a great idea. This also alters > Pauls > Network calcs as you are not loading the exe over a lan > > Question..Can you load a program with a non exe extension > > ie in a directory have launcher.exe and program.v1....... > Launcher is static and loads the last version of program > program.Vxxx polls its own dir for later versions > > Neven > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Middlemiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 8:13 AM > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Location of EXE > > > > That's interesting, I was thinking more of the situation where you may > have > > a task bar app that sits on a Windows 2000 machine and could be running > for > > weeks at a time (I think I rebooted a couple of weeks ago :), so when a > new > > version is installed, the already-running version can tell the user. > > > > Phil. > > > > > > > > > You could even have the executables themselves check the ini file > > > > and give a > > > > message such as "a newer version of this program is available, > > > > please close > > > > down this application and restart it to run the latest version". > > > > > > Like in an idle-timer? Yes, I suppose you could do that. Still updates > > would > > > have to be pretty damn frequent for that to buy your users much. > > > > > > Mind you, our _testers_ might appreciate it in-house so they know to > > recheck > > > their pending defects. Hrmm.. I might ask them about that. Thanks for > the > > > suggestion! > > > > > > TTFN, > > > Paul. > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
