Game updater

[MetalGeo]

I don't understand how you people have enough information with just a version number. Wouldn't it be important for you application to know what file it's supposed to download? Unless it always downloads the same file (which is hardly convenient!)

The file that gets read in my current project has a structure similar to this:

[info]
newver=1.00.5
link=http://www.url.com/download.zip
link2=http://www.mirror1.com/download.zip
link3=http://www.mirror2.com/download.zip
log=http://www.url.com/changelog/

Comes with mirrors and a link to a changelog.

Since the whole update system of my project is automatic, I want to have as much control as possible. And I already know I'll be expanding it with more mirrors, links to language packs, updates of themes/skins, plugins, etc...

Hey Geo, could you put an example file up?
I'm using Get to get the url, but I can't load the received data into ini.

Unfortunately, I don't have any access to MMF2 right now. But could it be that you're using INI++ 1.5 by any chance? I'm using plain ol' INI++.

[samanoskeake]

1. Create a TXT file on your website. Let's say the URL is http://www.example.com/version.txt. We'll say the version is 2.3, so add that as the only text in the file.
2. Add the Get Object to your frame (in MMF).
3. Add the following two events:

On check for updates:
     --Get Object: Get data from "http://www.example.com/version.txt"

Get Object: Data Received
AND ReceivedData$("Get Object") <> "2.3":
     --[This version is different than the current one, do actions here]

Here's what I've done:

Get "url"

On Get Complete
AND Received$(" Get object ") > "2.0"

It keeps telling me "Cannot understand your expression."

[Konidias]

samanoskeake, you're using > instead of <>

Greater than (>) is only going to work with numbers, but "2.0" is text.

[Jacob]

Greater than works perfectly fine with strings. FOr his purposes though, you're right. We tried to explain this to him in gwerdy.

val(Received$(" Get object ")) > 2.0

is what he needs

[samanoskeake]

Yeah, you successfully described it.

I've got it down, but the downloader isn't downloading my file.

I can get it through the browser (http://crunchyfresh.net/cubsy.exe), but the downloader won't fetch the URL.