On 5/10/17 1:00 PM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
Yes, but what if you want to update the launcher itself? Maybe I have made my ‘splash’ stack too rich in function, but I can easily see it needing revision. Because of this, I’m thinking of altering the structure of the app so that the update code is more or less all that is in the standalone recognised by the operating system, and all other stacks (including 90 percent of the original splash stack) are simply downloaded after the decision whether to update is made. Or is this stupid?
No, it's smart. The launcher should be the barest minimum required to get the rest of the data/stacks/whatever to load. That way there is rarely a need to update.
I've generally taken the easy way out. If I do need to update the launcher itself, it asks the user if they want to update and then launches a URL to a web page that has the download. I figure if the user could get it installed the first time, they can install the update. That's lazy on my part, but so far there haven't been many issues with it.
That's for desktop only. On mobile it's easy to let the OS do the updating. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
