FrostofSparta Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement, but if when a new update came out. Rather than having to manually download it from the site. If the program could grab the update and install the update itself, that would be slick.
eSkRo Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 (edited) hmmm, that would be cool actually.... or if people could only download the Binaries and drop them in their install folder... Edited April 16, 2009 by eSkRo
blutach Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 Some progs do this - PgcEdit, Filezilla are 2 I can think of. But is it so hard to download an exe file and run it? C'mon now! Regards
FrostofSparta Posted April 16, 2009 Author Posted April 16, 2009 Haha It's not hard to... I'm just saying it would be a great improvement for an already great product.
LOCOENG Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 I think a majority of users wouldn't appreciate a program automatically downloading updates and installing them for you...how would you like it if Micro$oft did it for you automatically with all their wonderful updates?
FrostofSparta Posted April 16, 2009 Author Posted April 16, 2009 Well it wouldn't download automatically... It would say. ImgBurn has an update. Would you like to download and install, you could then answer yes or no. There are a lot of apps that have this functionality built in.
ianymaty Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 I find it useful too... uTorrent is another program that has such a feature...
spinningwheel Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 uTorrent is another program that has such a feature... AND that has what all to do with Imgburn?????
ianymaty Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 uTorrent is another program that has such a feature... AND that has what all to do with Imgburn????? Oh, it has nothing to do with ImgBurn.... I just made an addition to blutach said... Some progs do this - PgcEdit, Filezilla are 2 I can think of.
blutach Posted April 21, 2009 Posted April 21, 2009 But, I mean so what? Is the update procedure so totally onerous? I mentioned FIlezilla, cos it has frequent builds and this procedure is useful. But how often does a new ImgBurn come out? Regards
scuzzy Posted April 22, 2009 Posted April 22, 2009 It's not so easy to code an auto-self-update feature which can work for users who don't have Administrator rights. I hope none of us here are running routine tasks as Administrator I think it's best for a program to auto-check whether there's a new version, but leave the installing of same to be done manually in a special Administrator session. Disclaimer: I don't have Vista and later, so don't know whether some UACish feature makes that easier to do slickly yet safely.
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