Automated updates

[James Mather webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi,

I am currently a university student in the UK and am studying business computing degree.

For my dissertation I am researching the use of automated updates in encyclopaedias and the most effective ways to implement this. I will use Director to create the prototype.

Would you be able to provide any information regarding this subject? I am going to create a prototype for an encyclopeadia on the history of football to be published as a multimedia CD. Ideally, I would like the user to have access to updates in information.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, James

[James Mather webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hi,

I am currently a university student in the UK and am studying business computing degree.

For my dissertation I am researching the use of automated updates in encyclopaedias and the most effective ways to implement this. I will use Director to create the prototype.

Would you be able to provide any information regarding this subject? I am going to create a prototype for an encyclopeadia on the history of football to be published as a multimedia CD. Ideally, I would like the user to have access to updates in information.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, James

[JB]

If assets are stored externaly on the users hard drive, they could be
added to using the built in getNetThing ( I think) function that
downloads in background with download progress stats available there's
not an easy way to decompress these downloaded resources, probably would
have do keep them .raw'

[Andrew Morton]

Search for "update" at [url]www.director-online.com[/url]

Andrew

[Rob Wellington]

"James Mather" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

> I am researching the use of automated updates in
> encyclopaedias and the most effective ways to implement this. I will use
> Director to create the prototype.

I used getNetText to get an updateList.txt file that contained a property
list like this [ "file name": "versionNumber", "next file name":
"versionNumber"] (You need to use the value() function to convert the string
to a list.)

If the version numbers are strings this works:
put "1.1.1" > "1.1"
-- 1

I had all this happening in the background during an intro animation. It
copies any of the new components over and then, when they're all copied,
goes to the main movie that uses them. That was because I was updating
linked castLibs.

Good luck

Rob