Hi Martin
The menu item will be controlled by the entry "UpdateURL" in the
version.ini|rc file, located besides the Office executable. If the
"UpdateURL" entry has a value the menu item is visible otherwise it's
invisible. "Check for Updates..." retrieves the version information of
an installed OpenOffice.org and sends the data to the URL defined by
"UpdateURL".
This is an active process regarding user data
Some users may wonder why data are sent
May i suggest to think at passive mode
- a file (or something elese) is maintened server side containing the
last version
- while checking, the information are retrieved from the server
- the version numbers are compared
- if user agree, the new version is retreived (even automatically would
be possible by load balancing mirrors)
This is the approach i used for DicOOo and FontOOo and the one i plan to
use for Extensions Installer. Feel free to ask for more details
Btw, why restricting to Hamburg builds ?
Moreover, why a .rc/ini file ?
why not integrating the OOo registry scheme ?
For more (technical) information about this feature, please look into
the following specification:
http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/onlineupdate/Software_Update.odt
will read thanks
In the future we plan enable full automated notification on all
platforms (Windows, Linux, Solaris).
de-activated by user (a check menu)
An automatic update of OpenOffice.org is currently not planned.
due to rights issues ?
Thanks for your inputs
Laurent
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Livre "Programmation OpenOffice.org", Eyrolles 2004
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