Updater Qestions

Hello:

I have two updater questions:

1. How do I make "Automatic Software Updates" a choice rather than forcing it onto my end users? I was thinking on a check box screen along with shortcut creation have a box which reads "Automatically &Update iCarly Fan Package and Other Internal Software", if selected the web update items would be included, if not selected the web update components would not be included.
2. How to create a universal software updater? if customer installs both "iCarly Fan Package" and "VICTORiOUS Fan Package" and selects the "Automatically keep project-x and other internal software up to date" checkbox during one install, they only need to run one instance of wupdate.exe to check updates to both applications, similar to how apple has its software updater on windows. If the installer detects that a previous installer has already installed the updater, it will not offer to install it again but rather just add to the list of products the updater can check for updates to.

I hope my explanation of what I want is understandable. Thanks for your help

Carly,

to make "Automatic Software Updates" a choice rather than forcing it onto end users, just put an If/End Statement around the "Install Web Update Client" script function. Similar to the attached screenshots. Does this help?

A "multi-product" software updater is possible, but it needs a bit of planning and is definitely not a trivial task. The wupdate.exe client only checks for new versions of a product. The real work is done by the downloaded update package. I'll have to give it some thoughts.

Friedrich

Friedrich:

I feel like a total idiot for not seeing that if/end statement answer coming! LOL

With the release of "iCarly Fan Package 3.0" and the upcoming development of "VICTORiOUS Fan Package 1.0" I thought NOW would be the time to learn and use the iDeploy web install/update features since not only are these products very large but could be updated with additional content in future (e.g more music and additional media like wallpapers)