On 3/12/10 9:02 PM, "Corentin Cras-Méneur" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ideally, the MS updater needs the same thing. Remember: you have to deal with > updating a bunch of applications, all connected through a central database. In > order to be able to update, no process that can access the database can be > running for the update to take place (and not app that needs updating can be > running either). I can close the Office Reminders, Database Daemon, and all other MS apps with an AppleScript or Terminal command. I have SuperDuper configured to automatically run such a script before starting backups, and relaunch them afterwards. So why isn't it possible for the Office AutoUpdater to do something similar? Put up an alert to the user saying something like: "The AutoUpdater needs to close other open applications. If you have unsaved documents, save them before continuing.", with buttons "Cancel" and "Continue". If the user clicks on Continue, the updater sends quit commands to the open apps. If the process needs a reboot, the updater can trigger that, too. -- Julian Vrieslander <[email protected]> -- YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
