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Hey all,

I have been working out of town for what seems like a year now, but i hope to be in town for the next few days.

I have been working on these DX Tutorials for a while now, my original goal was to create 10, well, i have made 9 so far and only plan on doing 1 more (for now). The question of the day is, what would you aspiring DX coders want me to do this last tutorial on?

The plan was to do it on a INI type file, how to read/write data as well as show how to edit this info in a dialog box. But I want to make this something that people will actually want. I have had so little response on the last 3-4 tutorials, and would like this one to not end up like those.

So I will ask you.. but i need to know ASAP, so post some suggestions, the one i like the most (or gets the most comments) will win (if i know how to do it.. LOL), but i need to know by wednesday at the latest, so i can get it done before im shipped out of town AGAIN.

I really hope that someone has got some usage out of the previous tutorials.
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How to use the Scripted Animation perhaps?


Well.. it just so happens i have made something with this just the other day. I cant pass out the images (yet) but maybe i can make something up simple.
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
I would like to also thank you for your efforts in creating the tutorials. They have been most helpful.

I am looking for information on how to do 1 of 2 things:

1) An email checker - my ISP uses SSL and a unique port and none of the pop checker allows for changes to SSL and port 995.
2) Ability for gadget to check back to the server to see if it is the latest version (and download new version if required).

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

1) An email checker - my ISP uses SSL and a unique port and none of the pop
checker allows for changes to SSL and port 995.

2) Ability for gadget to check back to the server to see if it is the latest
version (and download new version if required).



Well..

1. Im not sure, im sure there might be a way to do this, but i have not messed with
anything involving emails.

2. This is very possible, using RSS and some simple code you could have a simple
script that would read the RSS file for:


< LatestVersion >1.002< /LatestVersion >

< Url >http://urltodownload.exe< /url >




Then, in the widget/gadget just have a var that is set to the current version of
the gadget when it was made, then if the one in the RSS is NEWER then download the
new one. I would suggest making a "Update" object with some text that shows Current
Version, Latest Version, and a LINK to the URL of the downloadable file. This way
you would pop that up when the version changes, You could even include something
like:


< details >This update fixes.. whatever< /details >



This could then be added to the above update box so they would know if this is a
MAJOR or minor update. etc...



There are plenty of scripts out there to show you how to read an RSS file, or make
it an INI or whatever works for you.



I have something like this on several of my gadgets and they help so much.



Enjoy.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok the above post is a mess, but im not going to try and fix it AGAIN, the CODE block is not working right, and its adding returns.. so.. at least its readable now.