Web update - \"User Experience\"

[glenharvy]

When a user selects the "Check for Updates" shortcut that I created it appears the updater checks for updates OK however the user is presented with no dialogs at all.

If there are no new updates, is the user presented with a dialog or do I need to create one?

[Gizm0]

No, if no updates are availalbe, the user is not prompted with any dialog.

[glenharvy]

Not to good - the end user clicks on Update and to them - nothing happens.

Guess I need to write a program that pops up a message.

Is a return code sent by setup.exe /update?

Is there some easy failsafe way of determining where the setup file is located at runtime ?

[Gizm0]

You didn't understand. If no update is available, there is no dialog, but there is a popup balloon saying that no updates are available.

[glenharvy]

There's no popup on my user system.

I created a shortcut as follows:

Program: $UNINSTALLLINK$
Command Line: /update

Click the link, my program does something according to TaskManager, no screen interaction at all.

The ini file exists on my webserver and as far as I can see everything else works OK.

PS - The Update works OK when there is an update available. There's just no balloon or anything when there isn't.

[Tinus]

Some time ago I modified the update script for IA 6.0. See here:
http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1094

Note: The update script has changed since IA 6.0. Use this as a starting point for own modifications.

[glenharvy]

Here's what support had to say (just to close this thread on a highlight

In the updates script, right after the line that reads:

Get INI $SUPPORTDIR$\\updates.ini, [Update Packs for Versions] $VERSION$ Value into Variable UPDATE_AVAILABLE

you can find the following code:

if Variable UPDATE_AVAILABLE Equals
Terminate Installation
end

That one is the condition that is met when no updates were found. Add a Messagebox or Messageballon before the Terminate Installation to inform the user that no updates were found:

if Variable UPDATE_AVAILABLE Equals
MessageBalloon: No Updates Found, There were no available updates
Terminate Installation
end

Pretty simple if you know a bit about scripting (as I now do ).