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Hello,
I wrote this app that updates the application and or data files for my main app. I know how to handle params, but I would like to impliment a solution that leaves the end user totally out of the update. I could make the application check for updates whenever you open it (and I may end up going down that road), but I would like to broadcast an instruction to update to all the clients.
example...
I send a command
rcua data now
And that will tell all the clients to run rcu and update the data files immediatly.
I wrote this app that updates the application and or data files for my main app. I know how to handle params, but I would like to impliment a solution that leaves the end user totally out of the update. I could make the application check for updates whenever you open it (and I may end up going down that road), but I would like to broadcast an instruction to update to all the clients.
example...
I send a command
rcua data now
And that will tell all the clients to run rcu and update the data files immediatly.
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If you want to be able to use a program on a computer to update the program on other computers, then you will need to use some kind of server and client components. Take a look at the Indy components that are bundled with delphi, or maybe the ICS from http://www.overbyte.be/frame_index.html
This will only work however whilst the program is running and there would need to be a server that the program would connect to.
Sorry if I've misinterpreted your question, this is just what I think you meant.
This will only work however whilst the program is running and there would need to be a server that the program would connect to.
Sorry if I've misinterpreted your question, this is just what I think you meant.
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Method of looking for updates: probably best to put them in a fixed location on the web, so that the program can check that site periodically. No good though if the end user is on a dial-up connection.
Your question implies Pushing the update to the user, but this would involve plonking an executable of some sort directly onto the user's hard drive. Many companies security policy would baulk at this. My feeling is that it needs to be Pulled from somewhere outside.
The question to ask is, is there any advantage in polling for updates versus scanning for them on opening the app? Unless you are looking at updates the size of SP2 I think the user will be patient enough to see a message "Please wait, downloading updates".