samfisherirl / auto-update.ahk-ahk-v2-easily-update-ahk-apps-remotely

AHKv2 Self Updating Application Library

Auto_Update.ahk AHKv2_Self-Updating-Application-Lib

AHKv2 Self Updating Application Library This library is off the back of my github.ahk update, and dive into ahkv2. credit to Json Native.ahk creator https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=100602

repo: https://github.com/samfisherirl/Auto-Update.ahk-AHKv2_Self-Updating-Application-Lib

This solution does the following:

• Takes configuration for an app ( public releases) that needs remote updates, ill use "github.ahk" as an example.
• Connect to Github's API, returns release Tag (version), release download url, and release updates
• stores version data in a local json log file
• Everytime the function calls are made in the example, the json file is imported and github API redownloads the latest version data
• If version doesn't match local version, a download prompt is offered (customizable)
• if Zip, Rar, 7z file, 7zip command line utility invokes extraction of the release and overwrites the existing application path set by the user
• if Exe, a simple move file operation happens
• Version data is stored for future use

keep in mind this works but may have an error or two upon various use cases and if reported, I will fix asap.

Try, Catch need to be implemented as a code feature (I dont self-referentially update for you so make sure to check the github for updates ;) !Important for now, releases must be in the zip's main directory. I dont have a function to handle zips with the main app in a folder.

myApp := defineApp("samfisherirl", "Github.ahk")
; this example refers to my repo http://github.com/samfisherirl/github.ahk

path_of_app := A_ScriptDir "\github.ahk"
; set where my application is stored on the local computer

myApp.setPath(path_of_app)

myApp.connectGithubAPI()

update := myApp.checkforUpdate()

if (update) {
    ;update stores all json data, you can see some details below. Look at "defineApp" class for more details
    msg := update["repo"] . " version number " . update["version"] . " needs an update. Release notes include:`n" . update["releaseNotes"]
    Msgbox(msg)

    myApp.update()
    ;gets file from repo, if zip/7zip, extract
    ;then overwrite existing app
    ;updates log
}
else {
    msgbox("You're up to date!")
}

full code does not include native.ahk and github.ahk, both needed. find the full code here:

auto-update.ahk-ahk-v2-easily-update-ahk-apps-remotely's Issues

Error

Hi. I'm trying this with my script, but am getting the following error, even just attempting to run the example script:

Error: (126) The specified module could not be found.

---- D:\merge\working\current\64bit\Native.ahk
148: {
149: If !(module := DllCall('LoadLibrary', 'str', path, 'ptr'))

▶ 150: Throw OSError(A_LastError)
151: module_load_addr := DllCall('GetProcAddress', 'ptr', module, 'astr', 'ahk2_module_load', 'cdecl ptr') || DllCall('GetProcAddress', 'ptr', module, 'ptr', 1, 'cdecl ptr')
152: If !module_load_addr

The current thread will exit.

Call stack:
D:\merge\working\current\64bit\Native.ahk (150) : [Native.LoadModule] Throw OSError(A_LastError)
D:\merge\working\current\64bit\github.ahk (67) : [JSON.__New] Native.LoadModule('.' (A_PtrSize * 8) 'bit\ahk-json.dll', ['JSON'])
D:\merge\working\current\64bit\github.ahk (65) : [] JSON

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