Progress on Auto Updater - Page 5

taco-man · #**101** 03-07-2005, 10:26 AM

there is still one bug left that i have to fix, before release hopefully i will have time tonight to look at it.

Paradiso · #**102** 03-07-2005, 10:43 AM

Looking forward to it. Just wanted to chime in and say thx for making a cool program.

Wasabi · #**103** 03-07-2005, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by taco-man

once i get the auto updater working and everyone seems to be doing ok i may call it quits for a while, but im sure i will be back eventually.

Just wanted to mention that I'd be happy to lend a hand to such a great community mod. I'm experienced with VB of all versions and C# to a certain point. Just keep my info handy..

***Dolby*** · #**104** 03-07-2005, 10:46 PM

Just a heads up, when you guys put links in the news window html page for the patcher make sure you use <a href="link" target="_new">link</a> so it opens a new window instead of loading the page in the news/patch info window on the patcher. Example, look at your top 200 vote link.

taco-man · #**105** 03-08-2005, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Dolby

Just a heads up, when you guys put links in the news window html page for the patcher make sure you use <a href="link" target="_new">link</a> so it opens a new window instead of loading the page in the news/patch info window on the patcher. Example, look at your top 200 vote link.

thanks for letting us know.

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Originally Posted by Wasabi

Just wanted to mention that I'd be happy to lend a hand to such a great community mod. I'm experienced with VB of all versions and C# to a certain point. Just keep my info handy..

Perhaps you could tell me how to get a text box to scroll down as i add info into it? i couldnt figure this one out. any suggestions on rewording it are definately appreciated, i suck at english

I did a bunch of work last night on the updater, including creating an error window. here is a screenshot.

Ricki · #**106** 03-08-2005, 10:16 AM

All i can really say is WOW.. great great work and i hope you know how much we all apreciate your hard work. I wish i had the knowledge to complete something like that. I was just turned on to eq2interface.com by a guildy. So far only thing i've downloaded is the map mod, and i absolutely LOVE IT.. can't wait to use the finished updater...
thanks again!!!

ger · #**107** 03-08-2005, 10:26 AM

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Originally Posted by taco-man

Perhaps you could tell me how to get a text box to scroll down as i add info into it? i couldnt figure this one out.

Have you tried TextBoxObject.ScrollToCaret()?

keronian · #**108** 03-08-2005, 10:23 PM

Okay... now, it's been a while since I worked with VB... but... if memory serves, I ran into the same problem with some scroll boxes... all I did was a SetSelection to the end of the thing whenever I added new text. So... worth a shot, anyway.

keronian · #**109** 03-08-2005, 11:04 PM

Oh, one thing I noticed reading the thread... Looks like you're assuming a certain directory for EQ2... Well, you can eliminate this little assumption simply by looking in the registry for the full path to your EQ2 main executable.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Everquest2.exe

has two values... default value, which is the full path and the executable name, and Path, which is just the path. As for the location of the files to update... Well, you can use the path variable to find their eq2.ini file... which will tell you what the folder name for their UI happens to be... Maybe put an option in there to say "always update current UI", or allow them to specify which UI they want to update... default to the current one... Save that info to the registry... What all THAT would do is allow you to run the program from ANYwhere and actually find its way to where it needs to be. Anyway, ideas, ideas, ideas.

Let me know if you need any help with that stuff, I might be able to find stuff for ya.

taco-man · #**110** 03-09-2005, 12:49 AM

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Originally Posted by keronian

Oh, one thing I noticed reading the thread... Looks like you're assuming a certain directory for EQ2... Well, you can eliminate this little assumption simply by looking in the registry for the full path to your EQ2 main executable.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Everquest2.exe

has two values... default value, which is the full path and the executable name, and Path, which is just the path. As for the location of the files to update... Well, you can use the path variable to find their eq2.ini file... which will tell you what the folder name for their UI happens to be... Maybe put an option in there to say "always update current UI", or allow them to specify which UI they want to update... default to the current one... Save that info to the registry... What all THAT would do is allow you to run the program from ANYwhere and actually find its way to where it needs to be. Anyway, ideas, ideas, ideas.

Let me know if you need any help with that stuff, I might be able to find stuff for ya.

This could be a possibility in the future, for now it just has to be placed in your custom ui directory for eq and it gets its own location when it is run so it knows where to save and where to try and launch eq from(assuming it was placed appropriately)

taco-man · #**111** 03-09-2005, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by keronian

Okay... now, it's been a while since I worked with VB... but... if memory serves, I ran into the same problem with some scroll boxes... all I did was a SetSelection to the end of the thing whenever I added new text. So... worth a shot, anyway.

i ended up haveing to a combination of both things. i had to set the selection and then tell it to scroll.

bohicaseti · #**112** 03-09-2005, 01:56 AM

Just a quick note. It doesn't seem to work in Win XP 64bit. Crashes right from the get-go. Not sure if maybe it's just the Beta XP64bit talkin screwy to it and maybe that will be fixed by the time XP 64bit gets released or if has something to do with the program itself. I know I should expect such things with Beta software (especially OS's) but everything else seems to run normal. Just my 2 cents. No biggie, I just use the updater on my other computer and copy the xml files into my UI and it works fine that way. Great work on this mod by the way, it's definitely a 15 on a scale of 1-10. Thanks for going through so much work.

taco-man · #**113** 03-09-2005, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by bohicaseti

Just a quick note. It doesn't seem to work in Win XP 64bit. Crashes right from the get-go. Not sure if maybe it's just the Beta XP64bit talkin screwy to it and maybe that will be fixed by the time XP 64bit gets released or if has something to do with the program itself. I know I should expect such things with Beta software (especially OS's) but everything else seems to run normal. Just my 2 cents. No biggie, I just use the updater on my other computer and copy the xml files into my UI and it works fine that way. Great work on this mod by the way, it's definitely a 15 on a scale of 1-10. Thanks for going through so much work.

When i post the official beta for the Updater tomorrow test it again, it could have been crashing from the threading (which is now gone). And for anyone that is interested yes it will be posted tomorrow(well actually in the downloads section. I still have to write a readme and i am really tired so i am going to do it when i wake up.

also make sure you have at least version 1.1 of the .net framework installed on your 64 bit machine.

nancy · #**114** 07-05-2005, 02:00 PM

Here's an even easier solution to check for 404's:

<IMG src="logo.gif"" border="0" width="127" height="78" onError="this.src='media/fpo.jpg';" >

Fighter222 · #**115** 09-03-2006, 01:56 AM

Need help please!

My errors

Unknown Error: Microsoft.VisualBasic
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.DoubleType.Parse(String Value, NumberFormatInfo NumberFormat)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.IntegerType.FromString(String Value)
at Microsoft.VisualBasic.CompilerServices.IntegerType.FromObject(Object Value)
at WindowsApplication7.Form1.DownloadExtras()
at WindowsApplication7.Form1.DoUpdates()
at WindowsApplication7.Form1.Timer3_Tick(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.OnTick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Timer.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr idEvent, IntPtr dwTime)The currency separator information specified in the NumberFormatInfo is ambiguous for parsing.

Pc works with windows 2000