AutoUpdate v1.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ version: v1.0 build 2000/2/9 release: 2 date: 2000/2/9 programmer: Torsten Stelling state: forever freeware!!! q&a: (c)opyright 1999-2000 by Torsten Stelling (w)ritten 1999-2000 by Torsten Stelling what's this ~~~~~~~~~~~ This program is a program that make your updates to you website easier. It can update your news-file (index.html or similar) and your links-section. If you use this program regulary... please inform me, so i can list your site on my site that this site uses this program! Thank you! When you want new features or you find bugs... write me a mail! I will try to implement/fix them. information about this beta-version ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The links-section is not complete yet and the news-section can also get additional features. Use this program on your own risk. Please backup you complete site before using it regulary! Thanks! I have warned you about data-loss. I can't help you if you loss your data... You are now on your own. When you find some bugs that aren't listed in bugs.txt, send them to me! How to setup a site which can be used with AutoUpdate ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ News-Section ~~~~~~~~~~~~ First take the empty index.html file in the examples directory. Then edit it that it fits your needs. Follow the instructions inside the document. Links-Section ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wait until next version... Isn't complete yet... When you can't wait... look at my links-section on http://www.dev0.de and download http://www.dev0.de/linkdata.html FTP-Section ~~~~~~~~~~~ I think this isn't complicated to use. Find out on yourself. with what language i program this tool / credits ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I used Delphi 5 to program this tool. There are additional freeware components used for this program. Component packs used: tsTools5 - build 137 - http://www.dev0.de This componentpack is written by myself. I used my own database engine. tsAddon5 - build 123 - http://www.dev0.de This is a modified version of AnimatedMenus/98, which i made for my own use. RXLib - v2.75 - http://www.rxlib.com The Library that i call a standard in freeware buisness. This is an universal and cool library. ICS - Oktober 1999 - http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette/ The Internet Connection Suite is for the ftp filing and internet connections. mwEdit - v0.92b - http://www.eccentrica.org/gabr/mw/ The editor with Syntax Highlighting. DFS - no specific version - http://www.delphifreestuff.com I used the BrowseDirectoryDialog and the Explorer components. This are the tools that i used here. They are all very good and i like to say that they should get some credit. delivered files ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AutoUpdate.Exe - The main executable file. Start this and get happy! news.txt - The file with the information what's new in this version. bugs.txt - The file with a list of bugs and bugfixes. readme.txt - This file... examples\empty.html - An empty html-file for news-entries. what's new ~~~~~~~~~~ Please open the file news.txt with notepad for detailed news. build 2000/1/11 - release 1 - first release with links and news page. build 2000/2/9 - release 2 - this release has new menu-structure and a additional ftp page. - there are many new features since release 1: + added ftp-page with a small ftp-client + added new features to news-page and links-page. + reworked the menu completely! it makes now more sense. + added more keyboard support. + many bugfixes like directories, memory leaks, resizing of mainwindow and %_% - functions-bug + added functions: %_day%, %_month%, %_year%, %_hour%, %_minute% + added animations to dialogs and trayicon + added more options to configuration dialog.