Auto Update Code PLZ HELP

CrAz3D · August 21, 2003, 11:32 AM

I love Microsoft's updates, they popup at inconveint, random times. They provide almost no help to whatever may be wrong with my computer.
-I do msgs saying that I need to update or w/e, jsut so I know something is wrong.

It's just so much fun to sit on dial-up & download Microsoft patches.

EDIT:
Well I'll be damned, just as I post this I look at my System tray & there is Windows Update going about it's business.

Dark-Feanor · August 21, 2003, 12:30 PM

Post a text file on a server.
By using MSinet.ocx, make it state the current version in the text file. If the version on the bot you are running and the current version uploaded do not match, Tell them that their bot is out of date

Code Select

 
Public Function GetVer(ByVal Version As String) As Boolean
On Error Resume Next
dim textstuff as string
textstuff = Inet1.OpenURL(www.yoursite.com/text.txt)
Do While Inet1.StillExecuting
DoEvents
Loop
If LCase(textstuff) = LCase(version) Then
Getver = True
   Else
Getver = False
End If
End Function

Camel · August 21, 2003, 03:17 PM

Quote from: Grok on August 21, 2003, 03:01 AM
A hearty -1 to St0rm.iD for going to the trouble to paste yet another viable solution which gets ignored. The only thing I'd change in his would be to have the update checker in a menu item, and not done automatically by default. Users shouldn't be forced to upgrade, ala Microsoft.

I believe a great man once said, "DIE THREAD, DIE."

Grok · August 21, 2003, 07:43 PM

Why die? This is a good topic with a great many possible good solutions. I think a listing and discussion of them is completely relevant to good bot development.

Dark-Feanor · August 21, 2003, 09:43 PM

Why not add something like this to BNLS, that could be hooked up to your BNLS account? You send a packet on connection to BNLS and it returns if a new release is out

Camel · August 22, 2003, 01:06 AM

Quote from: DaRk-FeAnOr on August 21, 2003, 09:43 PM
Why not add something like this to BNLS, that could be hooked up to your BNLS account? You send a packet on connection to BNLS and it returns if a new release is out

How is that in any way related to the BNCS protocol? Perhaps your suggestion would be better suited on BotNet and not BNLS.

CrAz3D · August 22, 2003, 11:33 AM

True, but either way that would be a good/cool idea.

Banana fanna fo fanna · August 22, 2003, 07:28 PM

Grok: that's why I've essentially stayed off of this forum and kept to Adron/Grok/Advanced/Webdev forums.

CrAz3D · August 22, 2003, 07:39 PM

Are you dissing us st0rm?

Banana fanna fo fanna · August 22, 2003, 08:07 PM

Yes, I am. Tough.

WinSocks · August 22, 2003, 08:34 PM

St0rm reminds me of........ me

but more cocky

+1 to St0rm

and -10000000000 to me from everyone else

Banana fanna fo fanna · August 23, 2003, 04:10 PM

Noooo +1
But I have a reason: I always used to post perfectly viable solutions, which were always ignored, and whenever I told someone what I thought about their problems, they always say "well you could've helped."

It really pisses me off.

Auto Update Code PLZ HELP

Camel

Camel

WinSocks