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Posted: **Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:12 pm**

XL-Updater 0.1 \"Really Early Alpha\" Released
Windows-Only Release

Installation & Use:
- copy 'xl-updater' into your D2X-XL root folder, then run

a few things to note:
1) 'data' folder support is not yet complete....currently, everything will be extracted to the main folder
2) JRE 1.5 is required
3) The GUI sucks at the moment...I'm doing my best w/o using a layout manager

4) Must have D2X-XL 1.5.99 or later for checking to work correctly (will soon have the program download/install a new version automatically if -print_version switch is not avaliable)
5) I am well aware the Close button does not work....use the X button in the meantime

6) Some junk files are still left behind after program termination....if you need a really clean PC 24/7, feel free to delete 'd2x-xl.zip' and 'd2x-xl-version.txt' after each run
7) progress bar does not work (need to read up on Threads to get this working)

Basically...I wanna see if all the basics are down before I start tweaking

Well then....

Download:
http://rapidshare.de/files/11845306/xl-updater.zip.html

Posted: **Mon Jan 09, 2006 4:51 pm**

What is an MD5 check?

Auto-Update would require me to implement ftp/http communication in d2x-xl. No way, man!

Posted: **Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:17 pm**

Diedel wrote:What is an MD5 check?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5

Auto-Update would require me to implement ftp/http communication in d2x-xl. No way, man!

I did say that an external program can do this just as easily....and I did say that this sounds easy enough even for me to do

I'll make the Swing GUI first....then I'm gonna have to think about how to get the update info from the servers....something tells me I can't use MD5 hashes on the actual application :/ (maybe a small text file saying what's the latest version is)

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:39 am**

Sirius wrote:Honestly, no cockpit is better anyway.

take that back

Diedel.....I need to talk with you in real-time somehow. I heard you use IRC, so just name the server and channel

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:45 am**

We can talk, but only at 22:00 GMT+1 or later (which would be about 3 hours from when I am typing this). We can meet in the Descent channel (I am using Vortex to visit it).

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 12:14 pm**

Diedel wrote:We can talk, but only at 22:00 GMT+1 or later (which would be about 3 hours from when I am typing this). We can meet in the Descent channel (I am using Vortex to visit it).

which server/channel??? :/ there are 2

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:36 pm**

We can use descentforum.net, that's the one with the best availability. I am already in there.

Posted: **Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:40 pm**

that was teh fun

while I was talking with you, I noticed a big flaw with how I created the GUI (guess it doesn't like me adding ActionListeners to static objects)...no probs though, I'll put in more than 1 hour this time

but yeah, if you could implement that command line switch for me, that would be a big help

edit> K....rewritten the GUI, got the ActionListeners to work....just waiting now on the switch

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:23 am**

Where should the output go to: stdout? text file?

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:50 am**

Diedel wrote:Where should the output go to: stdout? text file?

stdout will do fine

need to start thinking about how to check/download the current version that is on the servers....I got some ideas, but it might require you to do something a little(little little) extra for every release :/

Some current ideas
1)Less bandwidth idea: maybe put a small text file on the servers....put the most recent version number in there....should only take up bytes of bandwidth for the check.

2)More bandwidth idea: do releases as you normally do....every time a version check is queried, that whole archive is downloaded, unpacked, "--version"ed, and if it is newer, overwritten on top of the old version. Dial-up people will hate this, cause it will always download 600KB even if no update is avaliable :/

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:58 pm**

All you'd need to do is to examine d2x.html for the package file names, as they all now contain the current version number.

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:42 pm**

Diedel wrote:All you'd need to do is to examine d2x.html for the package file names, as they all now contain the current version number.

ooohhh....that's even better ^^

might think about putting a changelog viewer right into the GUI, but I wanna get the basics down first

Posted: **Sun Jan 15, 2006 4:55 pm**

Just a little update:

I got checking for the server's current version working (dunno how though....that part of code is extremely messy....it'll work for now, but I gotta change it if I want it to support multiple OSes

).....it checks the version in the download link

now please...implement that switch for me

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2006 8:29 pm**

Another update on my project \"XL-Updater\" (I have such creativity

)

Everything is pretty much done for a open beta release....got checking server version, downloading, and unzipping working...now all that's left to do is to (once again) bug Diedel for a --version switch and implement that.....

so bug him now

Posted: **Mon Jan 23, 2006 4:09 am**

okay okay!

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:16 am**

Kirby,

d2x-xl v1.5.99 will print the version string into a file named 'd2x-xl-version.txt' in the data folder (application folder if no data folder present), when called with switch '-print_version' and will then immediately terminate.

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2006 9:45 am**

Diedel wrote:Kirby,

d2x-xl v1.5.99 will print the version string into a file named 'd2x-xl-version.txt' in the data folder (application folder if no data folder present), when called with switch '-print_version' and will then immediately terminate.

Thanks for bringing up the different folders D2X-XL supports....I totally forgot about that, cause right now everything unzips into the main folder.

I hope java.io provides a directory method

edit> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api ... tml#exists()

looks like I got lucky

I LOVE JAVA!!! ^^

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:18 am**

Diedel wrote:d2x-xl v1.5.99 will print the version string into a file named 'd2x-xl-version.txt' in the data folder (application folder if no data folder present), when called with switch '-print_version' and will then immediately terminate.

Well, I know that I'm little bit late... But if someone will need to do a version check (of something else), here is the source of tiny program that can do it (written for the Nullsoft Install System on its script language):

Code: Select all

OutFile "d2x_ver.exe"
SilentInstall silent
Section ""
  GetDllVersion "d2x-xl.exe" $R0 $R1
  IntOp $R2 $R0 / 0x00010000
  IntOp $R3 $R0 & 0x0000FFFF
  IntOp $R4 $R1 / 0x00010000
  ClearErrors
  FileOpen $0 "d2x-xl-version.txt" w
  IfErrors done
  FileWrite $0 "$R2.$R3.$R4"
  FileClose $0
  done:
SectionEnd

Compile, put it in your application folder, execute and it will do the same thing as d2x-xl v1.5.99 with '-print_version' switch.

Posted: **Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:49 pm**

May I also note that people may not want their d2x.ini file overwritten, specially if it has player name in it to start automatically.

Maybe check the date of the unpacking ini file against the existing one and if newer, display both so new ini lines can be copied across. (Or something like that)

Posted: **Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:16 pm**

Who made this into a topic????

Weyrman wrote:May I also note that people may not want their d2x.ini file overwritten, specially if it has player name in it to start automatically.

I don't think ANYONE wants their d2x.ini file overwritten....I will probably exclude this file from being extracted by default, and add a option later if someone so happens to request it for some odd reason

Well, I know that I'm little bit late... But if someone will need to do a version check (of something else), here is the source of tiny program that can do it (written for the Nullsoft Install System on its script language):

getting the DLL Version was my first idea, but this would of only worked for Windows users....using a switch just seems more versatile

Posted: **Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:22 pm**

Kirby wrote:Who made this into a topic????

Me.

Posted: **Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:30 pm**

Just released my first version (wheee!!!! ^^) Just wanna see if the bare minimum works for people at least

*look up*

also /r/ (requesting) topic renamed back to 'XL-Updater' and stickied

Posted: **Thu Jan 26, 2006 3:06 am**

Why do you want to rename it to \"XL\"-Updater, when it's for \"D2X-XL\"? You can do that yourself by editing your first post, btw. I won't hinder you, though questioning decisions of mine in this forum area can have unforeseeable consequences ...

(ooooh, the feeling of MOD POWAH!

)

Posted: **Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:26 am**

Diedel wrote:Why do you want to rename it to "XL"-Updater, when it's for "D2X-XL"? You can do that yourself by editing your first post, btw. I won't hinder you, though questioning decisions of mine in this forum area can have unforeseeable consequences ... (ooooh, the feeling of MOD POWAH! )

There....now we can both live happily ever after

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:08 am**

HELLO!!!! can I have some testers here???

request as a sticky please

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