Updates

[Haakon Birkeland]

I was just thinking why don't you put an option in the help menu to check if we are running the latest version of firefly. This way I think everybody will have the latest maintenace and reduce your support time.
You could store the latest revision number in a txt file on your website and compare it with the version on the computer. Then if the user wants he can download the new update.

Bert

[TechSupport]

Hi Bert,

That is a good idea. On the other hand, there is always the concern from users that any application going out to the internet could be doing so for reasons additional to just checking for an update. I agree though that it would be very convenient.

[Haakon Birkeland]

You could just have a msgbox that asks for permission to do it the first time then set it in the ini file. You also should put it in the status bar that 1 minute from now the program will check for an update and thus give time to the user to cancel it if he wants

bert

[John Messingham]

You also should put it in the status bar that 1 minute from now the program will check for an update and thus give time to the user to cancel it if he wants

I prefer to see an option on a menu to check for updates, not for software to do it when it wants to. Plus, can you make sure you allow for machines that are not connected to the internet.

[Paul D. Elliott]

Just my opinion, but I don't see the need for anything automatic. FF is not
a program that needs to be updated daily ( or weekly or monthly for that
matter ). When an update is available, it seems everyone finds out about
it in a short amount of time and gets the updates and that's the end of
it for a few weeks or couple of months.  If this auto-updating is just
gonna be a monkey-see-monkey-do "enhancement" that will take
development time away from real functionality then I vote against it.
You might need it on a product from Microsoft but not on FF.

Paul, you need to take a few weeks vacation now. You've earned it.

[Haakon Birkeland]

True D(r). Elliott.

If anything of the sort should be added before other useful enhancements, it would suffice with a menu option like "Version check.." that takes the user to a web page script* where current version and the users versions are compared and if applicable offers the user a link to download the newest version.

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*) ...planetsquires.com/version_check.php?App=FF&Ver=2.10