Author Topic: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.32.01 - May 9, 2017 (Read 200545 times)

steeladept · « **Reply #50 on:** August 05, 2007, 08:27 AM »

Wow. Very different interface now. Okay, maybe not VERY different, but I was looking around for the buttons at the bottom and they aren't there anymore. When I stopped ignoring the pictures at the top (which is a nice addition by the way), I noticed that they were more than eye candy

. Very nice addition.

mouser · « **Reply #51 on:** August 05, 2007, 08:44 AM »

You can still get the old buttons if you want (view -> advanced controls).
The same commands can also now be accessed via the File menu.

steeladept · « **Reply #52 on:** August 05, 2007, 09:21 AM »

No, no. I like this better, just wasn't ready for that much change.

Tekzel · « **Reply #53 on:** August 06, 2007, 02:59 PM »

Heeeyyy mouser. Was thinking about DCU today and had an idea, figured I would bounce it off you. You know how you have pre-release versions available to members of the site but not to the regular visitor? How you also have alphas (as with FARR v2) that we have to check a forum to have available? How about if we can put in our forum username and password in DCU and it will know about versions available to us that isn't available to the general public? You can have a beta-tester list of people you want to get very early versions of a program and DCU will notify us about it and give us the opportunity to download it and try it out. It should also have a way to revert it, maybe it will "archive" our existing version on the system so it can revert it that way.

Just a dumb but cool idea I had.

mouser · « **Reply #54 on:** August 06, 2007, 03:00 PM »

yeah i think it's a great idea.. not sure about the details but yeah it wouldn't be very hard to do and i like the idea a lot.

johi · « **Reply #55 on:** August 12, 2007, 09:24 AM »

hey mouser. i really like the new interface, but to remind you of a request i did some time ago:
did you ever use XP prof. or 2000? when your right-click on an executable, there is an option called "run as..."

clicking on this option opens up a dialog where i can choose to run the program under an administrator-account.
i would really like an option in dcupdater to open this dialog for the updaters, because i run an underprivileged account and i have to run the installers with an other account to avoid getting messages like "you must be logged in as administrator..."

picture of the dialog (in german language): http://www.screencast.com/t/sa3lzwk1

mouser · « **Reply #56 on:** August 12, 2007, 09:43 AM »

thx for reminding me johi, i'm adding it to my todolist.

Wordzilla · « **Reply #57 on:** August 16, 2007, 07:56 PM »

Amazing work on the updater mouser. Now it's a no-brainer for us to update DC programs.

Grorgy · « **Reply #58 on:** August 16, 2007, 09:06 PM »

Now it's a no-brainer for us to update DC programs. Thmbsup Thmbsup Thmbsup

I agree, its so good to not have to scurry all over the place to find the needed updates, I hope many people take advantage of this

from me to

lanux128 · « **Reply #59 on:** August 18, 2007, 09:42 PM »

another idea, mouser.. what about a "what's new" list when DCU finds a new update? especially one that is very close to the previous one, will help lessen the burden for dial-uppers..

steeladept · « **Reply #60 on:** August 18, 2007, 10:05 PM »

johi's reminder prompted me to remind you about proxy server settings as well. At work, we use .pac files for configuring our proxies, and I haven't found a workaround for that yet. Therefore, unless I bring in the updates on a USB stick, I can't get them at work, and that makes DCU a little pointless there (e.g. where that configuration file points to). Could you set it to get the proxy settings from the default browser? That seems like the easy way to do it, though I don't know if that is easy to code.

cnewtonne · « **Reply #61 on:** August 19, 2007, 07:46 AM »

Mouser,
Would it be feasible to add another tab/link/some control that includes the 'what's new' information for a given update. I use some apps on my machine that provide such functionality. First thing any user wants to know is what this update is bringing to the app being updated. I think all will welcome such feature.

lanux128 · « **Reply #62 on:** August 19, 2007, 08:23 AM »

cnewtonne, i was thinking the same.. check one post above..

Tekzel · « **Reply #63 on:** August 21, 2007, 12:21 PM »

Hey Mouser! I disabled a few programs in DCU that I never would use (flipbook printer, international image maker, etc) and while I have no need of this feature, just thought i should mention it: Would it make sense to add a tab that shows disabled programs? That way you can see what you have disabled in case you change your mind about one. It would work the same as the available to be installed tab, sort of keeping them separated logically. I dunno, maybe it doesn't make sense.

The reason I actually started this post was to ask, is there still any chance of categorization going in? I can see a large number of items being configured in this program and one huge long list would be very unwieldy. My idea is a tree view when user insertable folders, then they can drag the items to the folder and drop it to put it in there. Plus, plugins would automatically be a subtree of the program they plug into. Like all the FARR plugins. By default items would just insert at the bottom of the list, under user specified categories.

mouser · « **Reply #64 on:** August 21, 2007, 12:27 PM »

yes i agree with most of what you are saying.. a tree view is probably the way to go.

TucknDar · « **Reply #65 on:** September 16, 2007, 04:39 AM »

I would like to see an option to close DCU after checking for updates. I.E. when DCU is done checking, if it doesn't find any updates it'll just exit all together. I couldn't find such behaviour currently (sorry if I missed it in that case...).

My reason for this, is so I can use nncron Lite to launch DCU only on certain days or every 2nd day or whatever, and then exit when done.

mouser · « **Reply #66 on:** September 16, 2007, 04:45 AM »

I would like to see an option to close DCU after checking for updates. I.E. when DCU is done checking, if it doesn't find any updates it'll just exit all together. I couldn't find such behaviour currently (sorry if I missed it in that case...).

user the commandline option "-nothingexit" - tells dcu to exit if nothing new found.

TucknDar · « **Reply #67 on:** September 16, 2007, 04:54 AM »

excellent! Are there other commandline options I might have missed in this tool?

mouser · « **Reply #68 on:** September 16, 2007, 05:13 AM »

-show
show the window right away even if no changes detected

-shownew
only show if/when new stuff detected (default?)

-check
check as soon as program runs (default)

-nocheck
don't check for updates as soon as program runs

-closeexits
exit when user presses close button, regardless of option set in preferences

-closetotray
minimize to tray when user presses close button

-nothingext
exit the program if no updates found on first check

-scandir "long path to dir"
scan this directory for update files instead of defaults

-gotonewtab
start displaying the new programs to install tab

rjbull · « **Reply #69 on:** October 22, 2007, 08:50 AM »

At work, we use .pac files for configuring our proxies, and I haven't found a workaround for that yet.
-steeladept (August 18, 2007, 10:05 PM)

steeladept,

Not knowing of your post, I duplicated it in this thread Proxy, and Martin Aignesberger recommended wininet technology.

Josh · « **Reply #70 on:** October 24, 2007, 11:10 PM »

To all users,

Please post each new BUG REPORT in it's own thread. Do not use this thread for bug reports. You can add them to the DC Updater forum. After one is posted, we will add it to the DCUpdater - Official Bug Tracking Thread. This will help eliminate the clutter that was the old bug tracking thread.

Thanks for your help!

Josh

rjbull · « **Reply #71 on:** October 25, 2007, 04:24 AM »

You can add them to the The Form Letter Machine forum.
-Josh (October 24, 2007, 11:10 PM)

Josh,

Typo alert? Shouldn't that be DCUpdater forum?

Josh · « **Reply #72 on:** October 25, 2007, 06:57 AM »

Fixed!!! Thanks

mouser · « **Reply #73 on:** January 06, 2010, 06:29 AM »

Updated:

Version 1.26.01 - Jan 6th, 2010

Looks like win7 fixes are successful

Version 1.25.02 - Dec 29th, 2009

Attempt to fix windows7 crash
Attempt to fix problems with libcurl library on vista and other flavors of MS Windows.

Version 1.24.01 - Dec 20th, 2009

Rebuilt with latest version of libcurl (7.19.7) -- may fix some network issues
No longer packed -- may improve some exit crashes?
Added support for following redirects when retrieving web update and version files.

Version 1.23.01 - Aug 20th, 2007

Fixed bug causing error when you disable all items and say hide disabled.
Wasn't properly shutting down automatically when invoked from another program with disabled items.
Added help for using dcuhelper
Fixed bug in unzipinstall.exe helper utility which was causing it to not shutdown target programs during unzipping.

Version 1.22.01 - Aug 19th, 2007

Improved minimize-to-tray interaction with running the updater from a program and running it as a standalone tool.

yksyks · « **Reply #74 on:** January 06, 2010, 07:45 AM »

The latest version reports itself as 1.25.02, thus requiring update over and over. Otherwise no problems on WinXP and Vista.