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[Black Ghost]

Was just wonding. Be nice to have it too. Then I can patch for it.

[Cristiano]

well, since i no longet have access to the ftp, then i can't do nothing about that. but really, a lot of things are being done, weeks and weeks of hard work and lots and lots of debugging. but hey, it's working and surprise surprise, apup2 can handle java download links but hey, there's a few things to be done and things that are in beta mode may change until reach final... but with that feature, apup2 will basically will be able to handle any kind of download link

[]s

[ViroMan]

Well I keep posting that its going to be release soon but, now I have one last thing before release and that is to get the multi download code in. Im really not satisfied with the way it downloads right now. The cancel button doesn't work until that file has finished downloading because its currently single thread. Getting multi download code in, will make it multi threaded therefore, problem solved as well as adding a promised feature. Im not going to promise that it will be done soon but im almost done with the code then comes the testing and tweaking.

I will not post in this thread again till such time that I have a product ready for you guys... I don't want to keep getting your hopes up then dashing them every time you see something in here.

[ViroMan]

Alright people as promised, I did not post in here till I had a version to give you. It is now ready'ish for public testing. Im going to give it to domenico to test and if he says its bug free enough for him you all can try the current version out.

[Coastie]

looking forward to it

[ViroMan]

Alright domenico says its good for him so here it is.

If you need a proxy, apup can use the proxy that is configured in windows internet. Manual proxy configuring is not in yet although the interface is ready.

New Abilities:
* Apup2 ALWAYS makes a log file now but, it is a simple log. Under options there is slider you can move around to change what type of log is created.
* You can now change the location it downloads the release from. This will later be used to download releases from local servers where you may have already downloaded the needed updates.
* "Should" support dynamic links like java's changing links. <-- still needs more testing though
* Made it smaller per Penn boys needs

Known issues:
* If you have a firewall that blocks apup2 and while apup2 is still running you unblock... apup2 may hang. Cancel the download then click on "Get List" again.

IF you find a bug please tell me here. Don't forget to tell me what you like about it or if you think it needs a change.

AutoPatcher Updater 2 v1.0.4.1
Name: Apup2.zip
HASH MD5: 22E697D0F2FCFFDFE1382C40C23DB343
Size: 1,253,376 bytes
Date: November 16, 2011

I made it an attachment so I can see how many people are interested in it.

Removed older version... look down a bit more.

[Penn Boy]

Unusable with 800x600 screen size. Can't see buttons. GUI needs to be resizable.

Edited by Penn Boy, 17 November 2011 - 01:06 AM.

[ViroMan]

never even though someone would have such a small screen size. May I ask, why is your resolution so low? Is it a nettop?
I think I can shrink the width some more.

edit: ohh I see... its 30 pixles to wide for you. If I shrink it any more then it is now, you won't be able to read some of the text. I will see what I can do.

Edit 2: ok I changed fonts and shrank the window. This font might be better anyways. It should now fit in your resolution.

New download.

Also I fixed another small issue IF your download window gets stuck on because of firewall while downloading the release list you can cancel it then click "get list" again.

[click-click]

You need to make your GUI DPI aware. The best way to see what I mean is to set your DPI Settings to 120DPI via Display Properties settings. The default on most systems is 96DPI. I have a resolution of 1280x800 set at 120 DPI and all APUP buttons are off the screen.
If you are coding this with Autoit, this might be of interest to you:
http://www.autoitscr...ntgui-resizing/
or this in general:
http://msdn.microsof...543(VS.85).aspx

[Penn Boy]

ViroMan:

Using laptop. Depth not width too big. Using 800X600 for vision problems. DPI at 96.

Edited by Penn Boy, 17 November 2011 - 01:45 PM.

[ViroMan]

Penn Boy:
</hits self on fore head> I was reading that and doing the adjustments before going to bed. I can't believe I misconstrued that. I will work something out for you. I will create a function for auto sizing based on available resolution and also allow manual resizing.

ClickClick: Using that dpi function would kill using this on xp. and the auto it... I will look into it but, for now I will look into making it dpi aware in some other way as part of the function above.

Edit: lol I have never needed to adjust my font dpi and never was really interested in finding out the difference until now wow... I don't like it! The application now fills up even my screen. I will see what I can do with it.

edit2: on further inspection the main window is "dpi aware" but, the download window isn't because I have a custom resizing function that I made that shrinks the window. There are 4 sets of download bars and text on the download window at all times. you just don't see them. My custom window re-sizer shrinks the window and hides the things you no longer need to see. I never accounted for DPI issues in creating that function.

[ViroMan]

Alright new version available. Adjusted my re-size function, its more elegant and flexible this way anyways. When I made it was a hastily thrown together before release.

Penn Boy:
I have decreased the height down a by 50 or so pixels it should now fit in your window. I am investigating a new way to display the releases so that I don't need such a large window... look forward to a new GUI

Click Click: Try it now... it should look much better on higher DPI... I can't promise anything above 120 looks acceptable. I could not stand looking at my desktop or anything else for that matter at 120 but, I understand not everyone has good eyesight.

Edit: woops wrong version uploaded... here we go... anyways also new transparent icon for exe instead of white background(thanx domenico).

When selecting the releases to download do NOT select the older apup.

AutoPatcher Updater 2 v1.0.4.4
Name: Apup2.zip
HASH MD5: 158E577C28277FEB5D4D47545E08CE0E
Size: 1,249,280 bytes
Date: November 17, 2011

File MOVED to another thread so you can find and get news on it easier.

[click-click]

ViroMan, on 17 November 2011 - 06:59 PM, said:

Click Click: Try it now... it should look much better on higher DPI... I can't promise anything above 120 looks acceptable. I could not stand looking at my desktop or anything else for that matter at 120 but, I understand not everyone has good eyesight.

Yes, that's better. Actually, 120DPI is not that bad with a high resolution screen such as 1680x1050. The windows OS adjusts the DPI for its components quite well and everything stays pretty much proportional. It's usually the 3rd party applications that forget to take a larger DPI into consideration even though windows offers the user a normal and large size. IMHO DPI testing should be part of every application's test bed. Thanks for making the changes to the GUI so it would fit on the screen. I appreciate it.

Edited by click-click, 17 November 2011 - 11:26 PM.

[DesertJerry]

Downloaded APUP2.ZIp 17Nov11 - extracted to \AutoPatcher folder - this location had all the info from my previous use of AutoPatcher.

Started APUP > Options > No changes > Get List > Clicked > Available Releases > First item listed AutoPatcher Updater 1.3.0.1 09 Mar 2010 - Is this reallly correct? Why would I want to download the previous version? Or should have not used the previous \AutoPatcher folder? Or something else.

Selected Exit - waitingt on answer to above.

[ViroMan]

lol no don't download the older version of apup. lol that is still in the release.list. I should make a note on that. I have not touched the release.list because this is a beta application therefore it does not warrant removing completely the older app. You can place this in your previous apup folder. It "should" not cause any problems. I say should because this is beta... it has been tested but, you know.

[Penn Boy]

GUI looks good. Fits on screen.

Log attached with comments in red.

Attached Files

•  Apup2_LOG-2.rtf   1.28K   11 downloads

[ViroMan]

The rtf file didn't save the colors but, I found the comments.

Yes I noted above that if a firewall stops apup2 and then you grant it access while apup2 is still on you have to cancel the download window or it stays there frozen then you can click get list again. Sometimes it even does it for no reason. Im still not sure why. You would think because I coded it I would know why but, im using windows api code here... I can't see what goes on in there.



click click:

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Actually, 120DPI is not that bad with a high resolution screen such as 1680x1050.

I have mine at 1920x1200 its the default resolution on my Sceptre 24 inch wide screen.

[DesertJerry]

XP Pro w/SP3. Started APUP2.exe and selected what I thought were the appropriate items for XP Pro w/SP3, XP Pro x64 w/SP2, Win7 Ultimate 64-bit w/SP1, Win7 Ultimate 32-bit w/SP1 and Office 2010 w/SP1; downloads completed. (Did notice APUP2 was not on list of programs.)

Started AutoPatcher - items listed appeared to be accurate.

Rebooted into XP Pro and started APUP2 again - check marks were missing from items previously selected. Don't like this - check marks should remain.

Later the same evening; started Win7 Ultimate 64-bit and started APUP2 - again, check marks missing - unacceptable; please fix.

[ViroMan]

thats strange... it was working for everyone that tested it. Do you have an ini file in the same directory as apup2? It stores your selections in the ini file. If there is no ini file it doesn't have the rights to create files in the apup2 dir or something else got funky.

[Whatacrock]

ViroMan, I have set the APUP2 on my second machine and started downloading the hotfixes from scratch.
Went without a hitch first time round but all subsequent additions it tends to hang up when downloading the scripts or gets to 99% and hangs, I cancel but don't get the option to re get the lists , I have to exit the program in total.
Other than these small problems on my behalf it runs very nicely.

Could the release list be made into 2 parts ie first offers which releases to select then when it gets to downloading the selected releases only shows those selected and the others either not present in the list or even greyed out.I say this as I only download the English releases and several others.

Fine work all the same
Kind regards
Bruce