antony-jr
commented
6 years ago @d1vanov The official AppImageUpdate library is written in C++ and its here , the author written a Qt Widget with the C++ library. If you like you can try my library which is Single threaded and Non-Blocking using Qt's Event Loop and its here , For now I want some insight for my library , Its good but I want some pro's insight(like yourself) , My library's documentation is here.
Example
#include <QApplication>
#include <AppImageUpdaterBridge>
using AppImageUpdaterBridge::AppImageDeltaRevisioner;
int main(int ac , char **av)
{
QApplication app(ac , av);
/* If you don't give any paths , The current AppImage is automatically guessed. */
AppImageDeltaRevisioner Revisioner;
Revisioner.setShowLog(true);
QObject::connect(&Revisioner , &AppImageDeltaRevisioner::finished ,
[&](QJsonObject newVersionDetails , QString oldVersionPath){
qInfo() << "New Version:: " << newVersionDetails;
qInfo() << "Old Version Path:: " << oldVersionPath; /*This AppImage Absolute Path. */
});
/* You can also connect a lot of other cool signals ,
Please refer the docs mentioned above.*/
Revisiioner.start(); // Start the update.
return app.exec();
}Also see this example application which re implements the AppImageUpdate tool in pure Qt and C++.
Note: The update information is automatically extracted from the AppImage using the embeded update information which is written by linuxdeployqt or appimage-tool at travis-ci build.
Ping me if you want some help , I can send you a PR if you want to use AppImageUpdaterBridge , I'm not quite sure how to use AppImageUpdate official library since it lacks documentation and pure support for Qt's event loop.
d1vanov
Quentier should be able to check itself for updates, as pretty much all other desktop apps do. However, the self-update functionality only needs to be enabled for bundled builds i.e. for those having
-DCREATE_BUNDLE=ON.It seems the mechanisms for self-update checks need to be different for Windows/Mac versions and Linux AppImage as AppImage project has the proposed solution for self-update functionality.