Hi Chip
It's what I'm supposing as well, but I need to know for sure. The
trouble with that line of reasoning is that, when most CheckForUpdate
functions are written, they read the ini file of the script in question
to determine whether updates should be checked on script's start or not.
Yet, the add/remove update function runs through scripts and
successfully checks for updates even when there is no ini file for the
script in question and works even while the script is already running.
That suggests to me that it might be calling the check for update code,
but is somehow either using its own method or else is faking the ini
file event for that update check. If it's using its own method, I need
to understand how it gets the script's URL (since that's exposed in the
function written within the script). I may need to do some internal
script hosting, so I need to understand exactly how this works so that
all update functions will point to the server they'll have to use.
Hopefully it's not hard-wired to check app central somehow.
Thanks
On 5/7/2011 16:08, Chip Orange wrote:
Hi Jacob,
I don't think it's documented anywhere; but I'd be surprised if it
didn't just run through the list of your installed apps, and do the
equivalent of check for update from the GW toolkit on each of them,
accumulating a single list however to present to you at the end,
rather than a series of update announcements.
Is this what you were looking for?
Chip
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*From:* Jacob Schmude [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Friday, May 06, 2011 11:21 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Package manager update question
Hi, all
I'm new to Window-Eyes app development, but not new to programming in
general. I have a quick question about the package manager. How does
the package manager check for updates? I've read the docs for GW
Toolkit, and I understand how the CheckForUpdates object works. What I
don't understand is how the package manager itself checks for updates.
Does it fire off a CheckForUpdates sequence on each app, or does it
work via some other method and where do I find docs for it if it
doesn't use the GW Toolkit?
Thanks
