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 message such as "a newer version of this program is available, 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/
