Gene, Please study also the articles which I pointed you in Foxite. https://www.foxite.com/archives/0000469049.htm Regards, Koen
Op ma 7 okt. 2019 om 09:40 schreef <[email protected]>: > Hi Gene, > > normally your Starter programm just runs the main program, after checking > for updates, and then quits itself. The starter cannot update himself, thus > another program / task has to do this. The easiest way would be to first > install a new main program, which checks the starter for version, and > optionally does the update for the starter program. Thus the two can > update > each other :) > > wOOdy > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: ProFox <[email protected]> Im Auftrag von Gene Wirchenko > Gesendet: Samstag, 5. Oktober 2019 01:03 > An: ProFox Email List <[email protected]> > Betreff: VFP App Startup Program > > Hello: > > I have seen discussions about this at various times, but I have not > ever seen details. > > You have an app which might be updated and want to have that happen > automatically. > > In my case, it is a VFP .exe, and I wrote a program to handle that > years ago. > > What about if the startup program needs to be updated? Since there > is > a change (the first since) in that, I wanted to write a version that would > update the update program, too. Somehow, it did not work. And since there > is less debugging information available when debugging a .exe, I ended up > giving up on it after some trouble. > > My thought was to have two programs: > > cbs2run.exe would check cbs2run2.exe if it needed updating (and maybe > update), check cbs2.exe (the app) if it needed updating (and maybe update), > then run cbs2run2.exe. > > cbs2run2.exe would check cbs2run.exe if it needed updating (and maybe > update), then run cbs2.exe. > > The reason that I had two programs is so that cbs2run.exe would quit > running and be overwritable. Even inserting a 5-second pause before trying > to overwrite cbs2run.exe in cbs2run2.exe did not work. I got some very > inconsistent and confusing results. > > Was I overlooking something? If so, what? > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirchenko > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/CACUu1SuJoFj7D6ArAxFyiu=n8dkztgjjbyedljojzz7f1cq...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
