Ever wanted an autoupdater for you game or application so your users always have the latest varsion?
Now you can do that with the simple to use BASE Updater!

BASE is a app series in progress. It's main purpose is to function as a "base" for many upcoming games and apps.
BASE Updater is the first BASE app to be released to public as this was the first app in the series I made.

This updater is very simple to use and configure as there's only 4 different settings you need to change. More on that later.

The complete BASE series will include the following:
BASE Updater
BASE Client
BASE Server
BASE-Live

Name: BASE Updater
Description: An autoupdater for games and apps
Filetype: .rar
Made with: GM7PRO
Creator: Me



Cinfigure the Updater (ini)
All configurations is made in the updater.ini file (included).
ALL FILES THAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS .RAR MUST BE IN THE SAME FOLDER AS THE .EXE OF YOUR GAME/APP!

url - This is the URL to where the updated file archive is.
list - This is the name of the "list"-file to download from the given URL. This file contains some vital information that the updater needs to complete the update. Read Cinfigure the List to learn what to put in this file.
application - This is the name of the game/app to display in the updater. BUT(!) this name must be the same as the .exe (without the .exe part) of the game/app if the next setting is set to 1 (true).
runoncomplete - This is if the updater should autostart the updated game/app when update is done.

Cinfigure the List
This file should look like this:

The first line (002) is the current version of the game/all on the server. The updater downloads the list file and reads it to compare what version the user have and the version on the server side. The file that holds the version number on the client side must be named "_.ver" in order to work and the version number should look someting like "1003271". It supports a version number of up to 7 digits.
If the file _.ver is missing from the working directory, then the updater will download the patch automatically.

The second line is how many files that should be downloaded from the server. Keep this at 1 as there's a bug in the code so it cannot download more than 1 file.

The third line is the name of the .zip archive to download from the server. This file must be in the same location as the list-file. This archive cannot be password protected and there's no need to have them password protected as this file will also be available to manually download and patch the game/app.

I think that's all there is to config and use BASE Updater.
The updater is already configured to download the latest version of BASE Client (still WIP so there's nothing you can do with it).
Extract all files from the .rar and try it out!

Does it come with an example?

"The updater is already configured to download the latest version of BASE Client"

Can you have multiple files or just a single file?

I tried program it so you can download multiple files, but it would only download the first file and the rest of the files became just empty files. So I made it so it can extract .zip files.
The patch files (the .zip on the server containing the patched files) MUST be a .zip because after download of the patch file the updater will automatically extract it, so this would cause an error if the downloaded file is not a .zip.

A good thing about having the pathes as .zip files is that users can download them and patch the app/game manually if the auto updater fails...