03-06-2023, 08:21 AM
(03-06-2023, 02:47 AM)NasaCow Wrote: BTW, require to update is a great touch for peeps like me
Could you just tell me why?
Most people resist upgrading if the copy they have does all they ask for. Others have slow Internet connections and don't want to stick up for more than a few megabytes if it's not considered important. I resist upgrading because Windows' creators made me that way and definitively. I don't want to keep talking politically about it.
Maybe you just want to connect to Internet, fire up QB64PE IDE, have it check to see if there's a later release and inform you if that's the case? QB64 maintained by Galleon used to be that way but there were some problems with it. Probably the expectations out of a very small crowd increased that the product was going to be turned into a combination of Freebasic, Purebasic and Visual Basic into a freeware thing.
What I know is that the updating worked well for a couple of months and then the problems increased in which it was just easier to grab the latest ZIP or 7-Zip file of the whole latest version/release.
Coming to think about it, this is a good idea only because the Windows version of QB64PE requires MinGW and that is a heavy download. But it could be a PITA sorting out which files from that section need updating.
(Corrected a word for you, but why do you call yourself "peep"? It's disrespectful! I guess it's a social-networking or forum thing.)