How can I make my flash game update on a browser without having the person clearing the cache. I tried using the updater from the newground API but for whatever reason it doesn't want to work.
Can anyone give me a shove in the right direction?
Thanks in advance,
Dartos
I gave it a shot and for some magical reason all is well. Thank you good sir.
At 10/10/12 05:54 PM, dartosgamer wrote: How can I make my flash game update on a browser without having the person clearing the cache. I tried using the updater from the newground API but for whatever reason it doesn't want to work.
That'd have to be in the browser's logic. Either code a page to detect the newest version and run it against the version they're using, or just give the newest version a different name every time.
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At 10/10/12 05:54 PM, dartosgamer wrote: How can I make my flash game update on a browser without having the person clearing the cache. I tried using the updater from the newground API but for whatever reason it doesn't want to work.
Can anyone give me a shove in the right direction?
Thanks in advance,
Dartos
Flash is a sandbox, it can't control your browser. That would be a pretty huge security risk if it could. You can just connect your flash app to somewhere (like your own server) and then do some stuff, but I have a feeling that's not what you are looking for here. I think you want a general flash side code that refreshes browser and that doesn't exist.
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Then what is the point of the version control in the API? Is there a way I can open a new page from my flash code that would do something? If not then how am I supposed to let players know that I made a new verison?
I gave it a shot and for some magical reason all is well. Thank you good sir.
and by "something" I mean open a page with the newest version.
I gave it a shot and for some magical reason all is well. Thank you good sir.
At 10/12/12 08:04 PM, dartosgamer wrote: Then what is the point of the version control in the API? Is there a way I can open a new page from my flash code that would do something? If not then how am I supposed to let players know that I made a new verison?
The API "New Version" will not get cached. If you have someone on "v1.0", and you update the version in the API tools to "v1.1", the newVersion flag will be set in the API Connect event. You could then suggest refreshing cache, or provide a link to where the official game is.
How could I link to the updated version if the old version of the game is cached? I suppose I could just suggest to clear out the cache.
I gave it a shot and for some magical reason all is well. Thank you good sir.
