Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - Tue, 29 Mar 2005

Third time’s a charm!

My third alternative was from within Behold, to go out to my website, check a file that says what the current version is, and report back if that version is the same as that of the program running. My hesitancy with that I thought this would be a lot of work. But it wasn’t as bad as I expected.

The real problem is finding a good way to check if the user is connected to the Internet. Nothing is 100% reliable. And I may have to use a call to a WinInet.dll which is a windows-based file that I’m not sure is necessarily be installed with every version of Windows on everyone’s computer. So I need to allow the user a way around it if Behold incorrectly thinks there’s no current live Internet connection.

But hopefully it will work well enough. I set up a few nifty icons representing “Disconnected”, “Connected” and “Downloading” which will go in a new section on the status bar next to the memory dials. I like it! Now I can even use that “Downloading” icon whenever Behold gets anything from the Internet, such as going to Behold’s website or viewing this Blog from the command on the Help menu.