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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Update Program and Restarting

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blueFire
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2018 21:51
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I am looking for a way to have a project created with AppGameKit check to see if a new version of itself is available (located on the internet) and if so download the new version, start the new version of itself then exit the old version of itself.

Basically I want the project to update itself.

What command would I use for this?

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GarBenjamin
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2018 22:59
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A standard practice for this is to make a separate updater app. The shortcut for your main program would actually point to the updater app. The updater app runs... checks for updates for the main program downloads those then launches the actual main program and closes itself. You can go a step further and have your main program check for updates for the updater app download if there are.

You may have noticed this kind of thing happening with some games and browsers etc. Not always of course but is a common easy way
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Markus
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see HTTP Commands, you can request version and download file
https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/Reference/HTTP.htm
https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/Reference/Core/RunApp.htm
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blueFire
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Posted: 6th Mar 2018 02:07
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Quote: "see HTTP Commands, you can request version and download file
https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/Reference/HTTP.htm
https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/Reference/Core/RunApp.htm"


This was exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks.
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PHeMoX
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Quote: "see HTTP Commands, you can request version and download file"


Just so I understand what command you are talking about here, you mean you would check the latest version by downloading a file from the server like for example 'gameversion.txt' and check its string that might read version 1.23 or something and use code in your game to compare whether this is an older or newer version?

Well, at least thats what I would do. On Android/iOS you can push updates automatically I think.
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