Version 2.0 of the Auto FE Updater
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From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 1 Feb 2010 03:10 This release of the Auto FE Updater is a huge, huge improvement in developer ease of use. There's a wizard to get you going with the basic operations in less than a minute. Need to make a change to a setting? Just a few mouse clicks as all settings are updated by forms rather than having to use Notepad as in the past. But it's even better. Now, with three mouse clicks, a formatted email containing a hyperlink for the users initial install of your app will be created. Your users can be running your app with two or three mouse clicks. (This depends on the number of hyperlink warning messages. (Sorry, nothing I can do about the email client security warnings.) Have you looked at the Auto FE Updater in the past and decided it was rather ugly to use? The thought of editing configuration files using Notepad made you shudder with distaste? Taking an hour or three to read somewhat confusing web pages was a task to be done next month or next year? Visit http://www.autofeupdater.com and take a look. (More screenshots will likely go up there in a day or so.) I�d like to thank Tom Wickerath, Crystal Long, Clif McIrvin and Tom van Stiphout for all the suggestions and criticisms as I bounced ideas their way. I�d also like to thank John Mishefske and Michel for their suggestions of using a listbox as an alternative to an ugly multi-line tab control. See Interface Hall of Shame - Tabbed Dialogs down a short ways for what it could�ve looked like. <smile> -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: David W. Fenton on 1 Feb 2010 15:31 "Tony Toews [MVP]" <ttoews(a)telusplanet.net> wrote in news:u23dm5dh242ombtth4n0n0qqjfsqcbksvl(a)4ax.com: > This release of the Auto FE Updater is a huge, huge improvement in > developer ease of use. There's a wizard to get you going with the > basic operations in less than a minute. Need to make a change to a > setting? Just a few mouse clicks as all settings are updated by > forms rather than having to use Notepad as in the past. I just installed it this morning. The real win is picking the icon and having your wizard figure out the index number (which is not obvious from the interface that Windows provides when creating a shortcut). The one thing I didn't understand was why in some cases, the wizard would run, and in others it would tell me I hadn't provided an ini file in the commandline. -- David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/ usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 1 Feb 2010 17:54 "David W. Fenton" <XXXusenet(a)dfenton.com.invalid> wrote: >> This release of the Auto FE Updater is a huge, huge improvement in >> developer ease of use. There's a wizard to get you going with the >> basic operations in less than a minute. Need to make a change to a >> setting? Just a few mouse clicks as all settings are updated by >> forms rather than having to use Notepad as in the past. > >I just installed it this morning. The real win is picking the icon >and having your wizard figure out the index number (which is not >obvious from the interface that Windows provides when creating a >shortcut). That particular feature has been there for a few years and was on a form called from the main INI file list form. Maybe it wasn't obvious to open the form that allows you to select the icon file and choose the icon. >The one thing I didn't understand was why in some cases, the wizard >would run, and in others it would tell me I hadn't provided an ini >file in the commandline. Were you running it from different virtual systems to the same folder on a common server? It uses the workstation id to decide if you are a "master" and thus allowed to view the settings. If you aren't it gives that message. I"m seriously thinking of changing that to use the userid instead or a combination of workstation and userid. If a combination then I'd add the second and subsequent combinations automatically with a message telling you so. So that this would make more sense what is all happening. I probably should've changed this a long time ago but just never got around to it. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/
From: Salad on 1 Feb 2010 21:08 Tony Toews [MVP] wrote: > This release of the Auto FE Updater is a huge, huge improvement in > developer ease of use. There's a wizard to get you going with the > basic operations in less than a minute. Need to make a change to a > setting? Just a few mouse clicks as all settings are updated by forms > rather than having to use Notepad as in the past. > > But it's even better. Now, with three mouse clicks, a formatted email > containing a hyperlink for the users initial install of your app will > be created. Your users can be running your app with two or three > mouse clicks. (This depends on the number of hyperlink warning > messages. (Sorry, nothing I can do about the email client security > warnings.) > > Have you looked at the Auto FE Updater in the past and decided it was > rather ugly to use? The thought of editing configuration files using > Notepad made you shudder with distaste? Taking an hour or three to > read somewhat confusing web pages was a task to be done next month or > next year? Visit http://www.autofeupdater.com and take a look. > > (More screenshots will likely go up there in a day or so.) > > I�d like to thank Tom Wickerath, Crystal Long, Clif McIrvin and Tom > van Stiphout for all the suggestions and criticisms as I bounced ideas > their way. I�d also like to thank John Mishefske and Michel for > their suggestions of using a listbox as an alternative to an ugly > multi-line tab control. See Interface Hall of Shame - Tabbed Dialogs > down a short ways for what it could�ve looked like. <smile> Like David, I dl'd it. Excellent job.
From: Tony Toews [MVP] on 1 Feb 2010 21:44
Salad <salad(a)oilandvinegar.com> wrote: >Like David, I dl'd it. Excellent job. Thanks for your kind words. That's what I was hoping for. Tony -- Tony Toews, Microsoft Access MVP Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm Tony's Microsoft Access Blog - http://msmvps.com/blogs/access/ For a convenient utility to keep your users FEs and other files updated see http://www.autofeupdater.com/ Granite Fleet Manager http://www.granitefleet.com/ |