Shoutbox

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Originally posted by MenthiX
Yeah, those are the kind of tutorials i like to see (Smilie)

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thanks and a writing multi-language class tutorial would be quite a bit harder

but if nobody else wants to do it I'll write something up for it

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Originally posted by Dempsey
That's great!  would you mind if I use it on mpscripts tutorial section?

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sure, contact me on messenger and I'll send you the raw tutorial

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Originally posted by john-t
Great article. going to learn to code this will be great. Can i submit this to dig?   

Thanks. john-t rating of 9.1 - 9.9 / 10

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no digging

* Stigmata 's method takes up half the space

code:

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function CheckForUpdates(foo)
{
var xmlhttpup = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP");
     xmlhttpup.open("GET", "http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view/309-Myspace-Manager/",true);
     xmlhttpup.onreadystatechange=function() {
          if (xmlhttpup.readyState==4) {
              var pos=xmlhttpup.responseText.indexOf('<span class="largefilename">Myspace Manager ');
            var ver=xmlhttpup.responseText.substring(pos+44)
            pos=ver.indexOf('</span><br />');
            ver=ver.substring(0,pos)
             
               Debug.Trace('Ver On Server: ' + ver + ' - Ver On Disk: ' + MyVer);
               if(ver > MyVer){ Toast('New Version Available!\r\n\r\nClick here to download');}
                if((foo) & (ver <= MyVer)){Toast('No New Updates Available!');}
          }
     }
xmlhttpup.send(null);
}

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if foo == true, a toast popup will be displayed saying no update is available, else no toast popup.


is this a bad way to do it or something? because to me it seems like a lot less hassle and quicker etc...

Sorry stiggy but that code needs to be optimised.

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function CheckForUpdates(foo)
{
var xmlhttpup = new ActiveXObject("MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP");
xmlhttpup.open("GET", "http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/view/309-Myspace-Manager/",true);
xmlhttpup.onreadystatechange=function() {
  if (xmlhttpup.readyState==4) {
  var ver = RegExp('<span class="largefilename">Myspace Manager(.*)</span><br />','i').exec(xmlhttpup.responseText);
    ver = ver[1];
    Debug.Trace('Ver On Server: ' + ver + ' - Ver On Disk: ' + MyVer);
    if(ver > MyVer){ Toast('New Version Available!\r\n\r\nClick here to download');}
    else if(foo){Toast('No New Updates Available!');}
  }
}
xmlhttpup.send(null);
}

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I'll admit to not testing this before posting but it does look a lot nicer doesn't it?

Anyway, I like to make t ext file and check the build number against the number in there personally, but it wasn't a bad read.  I think any of us who do a lot of scripting ill probably use our own methods for this kind of thing but it will definitely be nice for the new scripters to have this functionality as well.

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Originally posted by Stigmata
is this a bad way to do it or something? because to me it seems like a lot less hassle and quicker etc...

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Originally posted by markee
Anyway, I like to make t ext file and check the build number against the number in there personally

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Personally I keep all my scripts with subversion, so its easier for me to check the ScriptInfo.xml (eg http://version.thedt.net/scripts/plusscripts/musi...ing/ScriptInfo.xml ) rather than to update some random text file and check that.

plus I think its easier for people just to upload a copy of the scriptInfo.xml rather than to parse a webpage or upload a random text file

Wow! That's a huge tutorial. If I ever get a good idea for a script, I'll use it .

dt's tutorial is good because it also allows retrieval of release notes and such all in one go. The tutorial is great, but it does this all just to ultimately check the version number in the end whereas so much more could be done (as he does in his actual scripts) using the extra data.

For simply retrieving version number something like Stigmata's code is fine although I personally use a PHP script. The Plus script requests page (www.whatever.com/version.php?name=Plus!Mail), the PHP script then retrieves the appropriate latest version number from database and returns it.
I like this method because it allows multiple scripts to be checked using the same system and a single URL (with a different 'name' parameter).

Either way, good job on releasing this tutorial dt. Glad to see people focused on helping others

That's great. This is the kind of thing that makes me think I need a tutorials section in the scripts page off msgpluslive.net.

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Originally posted by Patchou
That's great. This is the kind of thing that makes me think I need a tutorials section in the scripts page off msgpluslive.net.

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you do ;o i need somewhere to post my window tutorials =o