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Roberto Portalone

2005-08-25, 7:24 am

I need to insert the code in my program to be able to download a file (for automatic patch & upgrade).
Actually from dUFLP I use OpenURL(http://www.mysite.org/patch.zip), but in this way I'm not able to specify where (the directory) to download.

Can anyone suggest me a better way ?

Regards
Roberto
Marc VdB

2005-08-25, 7:24 am

Hi Roberto,

> I need to insert the code in my program to be able to download a file (for

automatic patch & upgrade).
> Actually from dUFLP I use OpenURL(http://www.mysite.org/patch.zip), but in

this way I'm not able to specify where (the directory) to download.

You could use the downloadprogressbar. Look at my site (www.vdblogic.de/dbl)
under Freeware...

HTH,
Marc

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Christian K

2005-08-25, 9:24 am

Could use URLMon.dll, which is a windows file, <%systemroot>\System32

EXTERN culong URLDownloadToFile(cp
tr,cstring,cstring,;

culong,culong) URLMON.DLL from "URLDownloadToFileA"

nResult = URLDownloadToFile(nu
ll,cURL,cFilePathToS
ave,null,null)
if nResult <> 0
msgbox("Error")
endif

If I remember correctly, I did run into an odd glitch once where the
returned result was zero (success), but the file didn't get created, so
you may want to check for the existence of your file.






Roberto Portalone wrote:

> I need to insert the code in my program to be able to download a file
> (for automatic patch & upgrade). Actually from dUFLP I use
> OpenURL(http://www.mysite.org/patch.zip), but in this way I'm not
> able to specify where (the directory) to download.
>
> Can anyone suggest me a better way ?
>
> Regards
> Roberto


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