Francisco Tapia
fhtapia at gmail.com
Fri May 13 11:10:32 CDT 2005
You are causing an unnecessary load on the network IMHO. for the amount of workstations your app maintains it should not feel sluggish, downloading the app everytime you start it makes you feel that way. There are other factors at play here too. the server that serves up the file can easily be bogged down in connections if someone is making a huge write/read from it, further slowing down your FE start up times... even if it only happens once in a while your user's perception of your program will be that it's slow... A quick check for the version number could solve your issue as well and can be done from the batch file as well, download the .txt w/ the version in it and check it within the batch, if a new version is out, download the new version while prompting the user... otherwise your users just see a snappy app that loads when they double click on it. downloading the entiere FE everytime reguardless of upgrade is a waste of resources... imagine having to wait for IE/FF/Opera to download the program everytime you wanted to browse the web!!! On 5/12/05, John W. Colby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > Simplicity. My clients typically have 30-40 stations max, and the FE takes > a few seconds to load. A batch file took about 3 minutes to cook up and > just works. Obviously if this is going to a system with hundreds of > workstations then something else would be in order. The other thing is that > by downloading a fresh copy every time they open the FE I can do temp tables > without worrying about bloat. > > John W. Colby > www.ColbyConsulting.com > > Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: > http://folding.stanford.edu/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Kath Pelletti > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 8:45 PM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Front End Updater > > I can't see either why you would want to download the FE every time. I > always do a check on startup and replace only if the version no. has > changed. Kath > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Francisco Tapia > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 10:21 AM > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Front End Updater > > That still sucks, the updater I put together checks the ver through the > day > (about once every hour), a small tiny file less than 1k, that's not a big > deal but if I was gonna incorporate wan, i'd slow the check to once on > boot > up of the software and once per day (if they never shut down). having to > dowload whatever the FE size is every time you wanna use the application > makes it feel clunky. > > On 5/12/05, John W. Colby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: > > > > On a local lan I just have a batch file that does the download every > time > > the user loads the FE. Over a low speed wan this might be problematic, > > though over a high speed internet connection it would probably work just > > fine. > > > > John W. Colby > > www.ColbyConsulting.com <http://www.ColbyConsulting.com> > > > > Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: > > http://folding.stanford.edu/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller > > Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:52 PM > > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > > Subject: [AccessD] Front End Updater > > > > I know that this has been kicked around several times in the past, but > > I'd like to know the current thinking on this subject. Given N users on > > a LAN (and it might be a WAN), we want to place any updates in one > > standard place (probably using a hardcoded reference to the box and dir) > > and then have a mechanism that checks to see if the update is more > > recent than the version locally loaded. > > > > What puzzles me about this is: given Access's habit of re-timestamping > > the ADP/MDB file upon loading, how do you compare versions to see which > > is more recent? A laptop user, for example, currently disconnected but > > going to be connected tomorrow morning, may have a more recent timestamp > > on her file than the one on the net. How do you get around this problem? > > > > TIA, > > Arthur > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.9 - Release Date: 5/12/2005 > > > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- > > AccessD mailing list > > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > > -- > -Francisco > http://pcthis.blogspot.com |PC news with out the jargon! > http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More... > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- -Francisco http://pcthis.blogspot.com |PC news with out the jargon! http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More...