Digital Paintball Update checker

[toxikr3]

Hi guys, I have been working on this for a while now, thought I'd let you guys try it out and find any errors.

It a Update Checker for Paintball and if you are wondering how it works and what it does I will explain it to you. ^_^

Its an .exe file. If you think its a malware, please go ahead and scan it before you run it ^_^

Anyways, when you run the program it reads from a webpage, http://www.dplogin.com/serverlist.php

It finds the last line and gets the latest build of the game. That is what you will see at the top right hand corner.

It then goes and reads the value from your computer's registry, it ONLY reads from the paintball registry for the build you currently have.

If they differ, it will show you a download button. This download button will let you download the latest update.

Once the download is complete, the program closes and runs the update.

If you have the latest version you can simple click play to start the game.

I have hosted this on RapidShare.

http://rapidshare.com/files/325486545/UpdateChecker.exe.html


EDIT: New link, rapidshare link is messed . This is hosted on my FileFront account.
http://www.filefront.com/15215023/UpdateChecker.exe


Download and put it in the folder where your Paintball2.exe file is.

Most likely in C:\Games\Paintball2

To run this however you will need MicroSoft .NetFramework 2.5 at the least.

First run the program without downloading the NetFramework, if the programs runs, great, if not download then try again. If it still doesn't work please post.

Thanks,
-Toxikr3

EDIT: A very quick video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIFV1HOao1o

This is an older version, but still looks the same and works the same.

[T3RR0R15T]

From which server does ist download the files?

[toxikr3]

From the source forge mirrors. Same ones on the download page.

[toxikr3]

Has anyone tried this? Any errors?

[ViciouZ]

Fails to run on Vista x64, yes I have the right .NET framework.

[toxikr3]

hm... alright I'll see if I can fix it

Thanks


EDIT: Which version of netFrameWork do you have? 2.5 or higher?

[T3RR0R15T]

3.5 SP1 for me.

I have Vista x64 and can't run it too.

[toxikr3]

Ah! Its the problem with Vista

Should work fine with xp.

Can you guys try to right click run as and select compatible with xp?

I'll try and look up the problem with Vista..

EDIT: Agh! Well I found that you will need this
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBEE1648-7106-44A7-9649-6D9F6D58056E&displaylang=en

It will install Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 and .net framework 3.5

If you don't want to download it, its cool. I know this is just a dragging pain! Hate compatibility issues

I got the link from this site
http://www.vistax64.com/software/182417-problem-visual-basic-2008-a.html

If it doesn't sound like it would help you, please don't download it.

[Garrett]

Problem is, the build number retrieved from the .php file isn't updated each time the game is.  The build number in the file must mean the server version, not the game version. 

Why not just purse the http://digitalpaint.org/files/ page and go off of the build version listed there, although still the problem arises when jitspoe updates a build and just posts the patch in the forums.

[T3RR0R15T]

I think he only post the pretest builds here. If they are final, they are on the page too.

[toxikr3]

Yeah thats true, I have latest version as 26 and current version as 28...

I can't really do anything, since the main page has to be updated with the version.

And this works for you guys?