There really should have been a safety feature in the app-updater here, catching up with this stuff. Wheher a version is told to be 2.0, or 2.00, should be treated the same from the updating feature. Same goes with things like 7.5, and 7.50. And, it should be a pretty easy task to accomplish for the GW staff. Simply have the updater ignore the last digit, in case it is a zero. This seems to be first time we ran into the problem - but you take my word, it won't be the last. Sooner or later, someone is uploading their newly updated app, and do the same 'tricky' thing with their version number.
And, for all you app writers, doesn't this example stress two main facts? 1. make sure of your version number always be what you want it to be, and follow that line consequently. Don't change from one decimal to two, in the middle of the line. 2. When coding yur app, here you see what happens if we leave things untreated. Because there has been implemented no rule on the version number, the updater gets messed up, when the user changes behavior. In your app, whenever you let the user interact with something, i.e through an user input, you should always implement some instructions, that let your app know what to do, in case things are entered incorrectly. The top-off-the-shelf example here, would be if your app expecs a number, and the user enters a text string. All app designers with a bit of experience, will know what I am saying here. GW, please have the app-updater changed, so it will catch up this kind of alternate version numbering. That will save the list, and future app designers, for a ton of tricky complains, that the updater goes heywire just because of a silly zero. :) CHIP! Maybe something for you to stress as well, in your scripting classes, the need for error fixing routines whenever an app is interacting; be it with an input from the user, or input from any other device or file. It's been a headache for me, many a time up through the years, why a program goes crazy at given spots; all until I realize it all is due to unexpected inputs. Therefore, a waterproof app or software, will always take into consideration the fact that incoming data could be wrongly formatted, or even corrupted. And hence, the waterproof itself sits in the fact there is an error handling feature built into the software, that will jump into action when cases like that araises. ----- Original Message ----- From: net bat To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:22 PM Subject: Re: Update Pop-Up All the Time if you have the bcscan program for scanning bar codes it has a version number problem and it will keep poping up to be updated. no matter how many times you do update it because the version number 2.0 is not the same as the version number on the app page. its 2.00 this is why it keeps trying to update. turn off the check for update on that app and it won't check for updates. ----- Original Message ----- From: BT To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:32 AM Subject: Re: Update Pop-Up All the Time Hi! It was Hot Spot this time, set to manual and it set everything to manual. I seemed to have lost the update all option but did do the mouse check for update inside the add/remove manager. for, there was nothing in the other options. Did not say all, but did do the check. but, I never had the pop-up before for updating, for it seems to do it all the time now and do not know who, which app, has started this. For the manual setting shuts off all apps. Everything I have loaded has the check for updates off! So, who is causing it, I have no clue, but annoying! It does it every time Windoweyes starts and I read that option once and shut it off, and don't know where it is coming from... Bruce Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 2:10 PM Subject: Re: Update Pop-Up All the Time if you have the bcscan app to scan bar codes this is the one that is still causeing th problem. the version number is wrong. but you do not have to uninstall it. gist go to the apps pull down. arrow down to bcscan , press enter on it then help then change it to never check for updates. then it won't bother you. and it does show which app it is outdated if you go to the app pull down , app get and change the pull down setting to show apps installed. then it will show which apps are trying to update. like the bcscan. it is version 2.0 but it says version 2.00 is a update. the version number has not been changed yet on the app web site so w e thinks it is a new update. ----- Original Message ----- From: BT To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:48 AM Subject: Re: Update Pop-Up All the Time Hi! Yes, all my apps say they have the latest, so I will do this suggestion to find out what is going on. I did download the add version stuff and don't know who is causing this issue unless I disable it. Bruce Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 9:43 AM Subject: RE: Update Pop-Up All the Time Hi, I'd go to the App Manager, hit the check for updates button, you'll get a list of apps needing updates. You could then choose update all or remove any you want. Don ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: BT [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Update Pop-Up All the Time I downloaded several apps and now I keep getting a pop-up saying an update is available, but ther is none. It does not say which app, it just keeps on popping up. If anyone knows which app is doing this, I will delete it, I mean the one that causes the pop-up! 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