Jacob,
Sorry, I don't know the details of how this feature works. Hopefully, somebody from GW Micro will fill in the details for you. Have a great day! Vic From: Jacob Schmude [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 2:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Package manager update question 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
