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Web update - \"User Experience\"
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:49 am
by glenharvy
When a user selects the "Check for Updates" shortcut that I created it appears the updater checks for updates OK however the user is presented with no dialogs at all.
If there are no new updates, is the user presented with a dialog or do I need to create one?
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 6:53 am
by Gizm0
No, if no updates are availalbe, the user is not prompted with any dialog.
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 7:01 am
by glenharvy
Not to good - the end user clicks on Update and to them - nothing happens.
Guess I need to write a program that pops up a message.
Is a return code sent by setup.exe /update?
Is there some easy failsafe way of determining where the setup file is located at runtime ?
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:31 am
by Gizm0
You didn't understand. If no update is available, there is no dialog, but there is a popup balloon saying that no updates are available.
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:48 am
by glenharvy
There's no popup on my user system.
I created a shortcut as follows:
Program: $UNINSTALLLINK$
Command Line: /update
Click the link, my program does something according to TaskManager, no screen interaction at all.
The ini file exists on my webserver and as far as I can see everything else works OK.
PS - The Update works OK when there is an update available. There's just no balloon or anything when there isn't.
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:43 am
by Tinus
Some time ago I modified the update script for IA 6.0. See here:
http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1094
Note: The update script has changed since IA 6.0. Use this as a starting point for own modifications.
Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:39 pm
by glenharvy
Here's what support had to say (just to close this thread on a highlight
In the updates script, right after the line that reads:
Get INI $SUPPORTDIR$\\updates.ini, [Update Packs for Versions] $VERSION$ Value into Variable UPDATE_AVAILABLE
you can find the following code:
if Variable UPDATE_AVAILABLE Equals
Terminate Installation
end
That one is the condition that is met when no updates were found. Add a Messagebox or Messageballon before the Terminate Installation to inform the user that no updates were found:
if Variable UPDATE_AVAILABLE Equals
MessageBalloon: No Updates Found, There were no available updates
Terminate Installation
end
Pretty simple if you know a bit about scripting (as I now do
).