There should be a shortcut to run the nw exe and have the working directory the level up. This might be able to be made into a tiny stand alone exe later?.....
This repos contents apart from this readme file should be put into the game folder.
The launcher will load a version.dat in the game folder.
If there is none or there is a problem reading it then the current client version will be considered 0.
The server is asked on the patchURL for the servers version.txt which contains an integer for the server's patch version.
If the client is behind the server version it will attempt to patch.
Each version number is mapped to a directory on the patch server. 1/ 2/ 3/ etc...
Inside this directory should be a info.txt file which has instructions for patching seperated by new lines.
The file does not need to end with a new line.
Currently we only have the following Instructions. All instruction commands should be written in lower case. If you want to have spaces in a filename parameter please URL encode it eg the ' ' space character would become %20.
All download file paths are relative to the patchURL + / + versionToPatch /
Instructs the launcher to download and extract a zip file.
There are 2 arguments. Filename and Location.
Usage: zip filename.zip . Usage: zip filename.zip Currently the only locations accepted are nothing or . which should map to the games working directory.
Note: The files in the root of the zip should be considered as folders going straight into the game directory. For example if your zip contains G01_GFONT\BADWORD.DAT G01_GFONT\MESSAGE.DAT G01_GFONT\TIP.DAT
Then it would overwrite those files. Please do not have empty directorys.
Note: In the future it would be possible to download but not extract the zip file. And ask it first for files before downloading getting them from the patch server.
Currently the progress bars don't update like I would like. This is a known issue.
Instructs the launcher to show an alert message.
Usage: alert message goes in here Usage: alert Hello World!
It was made as more of a test command than anything to use for real.
Instructs the launcher to finish patching the version it is on and reload the launcher application. It should give the user 3 secconds warning at least. By changing the status label. It is incase we have to change launcher code with a patch :).
If the patch was a success patching will continue with the next patch.
Later on we will have these.
Remove a file. * Great care should be taken with the remove commands.... they should only work in game folder and definatly double check them!!!
Remove a directory. * Great care should be taken with the remove commands.... they should only work in game folder and definatly double check them!!!
And maybe something like