Hi
Sorry about that. My UNIX background makes me think of anything that
deals with creating, installing, or otherwise manipulating software as
part of a package manager. I didn't mean the package manager dialog
itself, I meant the add/remove dialog's check for updates feature. I
consider that part of the package manager because it deals with managing
your installed packages. Comes from working with UNIX-based systems for
a long time, I suppose. In any case, I want to know how the add/remove
apps dialog's check for updates feature works.
Thanks
On 5/7/2011 08:23, Vic Beckley wrote:
Jacob,
I am a little confused about what you are asking. The package manager
is a tool to package your app files into the app package that you can
distribute to other users for them to install your app. It does not
check for updates. When you update an app, you must choose to modify
the package for the app and manually add the updated files again.
There is a complete discussion of the package manager in the App
Developer's Reference under the An Introduction to Window-Eyes Apps
section called Packaging Apps. I hope this helps.
Vic
*From:*Jacob Schmude [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Friday, May 06, 2011 11:21 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Package manager update question
Hi, all
I'm new to Window-Eyes app development, but not new to programming in
general. I have a quick question about the package manager. How does
the package manager check for updates? I've read the docs for GW
Toolkit, and I understand how the CheckForUpdates object works. What I
don't understand is how the package manager itself checks for updates.
Does it fire off a CheckForUpdates sequence on each app, or does it
work via some other method and where do I find docs for it if it
doesn't use the GW Toolkit?
Thanks
