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edvin / fxlauncher

Auto updating launcher for JavaFX Applications
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Is there a way to update the fxlauncher on the fly? #118

Open gabrielpaim opened 6 years ago

gabrielpaim commented 6 years ago

Hi guys,

This may sound unnecessary as the launcher process is quite generic, but considering some customization such as the CustomUI and this issue, this could be required. How could I update the fxlauncher itself? Naturally, during the app lifecycle this is not allowed, but do you have any suggestion for that?

Thanks!

edvin commented 6 years ago

No, that's not possible, you'd have to tell your users to reinstall the executable unfortunately. This is one of the things I want to fix in a reboot/2.0 version down the line.

gabrielpaim commented 6 years ago

Ok, thank you Edvin for the super fast respose :) By the way, are you organizing your plans for this mentioned reboot/2.0 (https://github.com/edvin/fxlauncher/issues/37) somewhere?

edvin commented 6 years ago

No, I'm not as I'm waiting to see what becomes of the Graviton Browser. Knowing Mike Hearn this might be a far better solution with a lot more bells and whistles :)

https://graviton-browser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

gabrielpaim commented 6 years ago

Ok, thanks again Edvin. I'm closing the issue. :)

gabrielpaim commented 5 years ago

Hi Edvin,

let me quickly reopen this issue to ask you if you happened to check this, as you mentioned it in your last message. It seems really interesting, indeed.

So far, we're shipping an App (that is still in beta) to our users with FxLauncher (thank you!), but we needed to implement a way to update the launcher itself through an outside native script (shell, batch). Although it works well, we needed to set a hard requirement to not install the application in a folder without write permission. It seems that this decision may become an issue for us in a near future. Still, I really would like to known what are your thoughts on this, if you are still considering this reboot/2.0.

edvin commented 5 years ago

Graviton looks very promising, and is written by an extremely smart guy :) I want to investigate the need for FXLauncher 2.0 in light of Graviton, but I haven't had time to do so yet I'm afraid.