AutoHotkey Community

1. Current autohotkey username
2. A password other than the one you use here on autohotkey
3. Application Name
4. Application Version Keep to strict numerical values like "1.0" (not 1.0.1 ect)
5. Application File-name Example "download.zip"
Note: File Extensions Allowed: .zip, .rar - compilations must be zipped, no exceptions!

6. Include the following code in your script:



Note: In the script above, replace username with your autohotkey username you gave in step 1. Note that letters will be lowercase in the url. Replace X with the software version you gave in the beginning.

A good example for code if I personally uploaded with my current autohotkey username (which is HCProfessionals) and an application version 1.0:


7. After I have sent you a confirmation that your account has been setup and the information for your software has been added to the server, go to: http://northernhost.org/software and login.

8. Click on the upload button and upload your software. Be sure that the file-name matches the one you sent above in Step 5 or this will not work.

9. After the upload has completed, your good to go

1. Account username you signed up with
2. Application Name
3. New Application Version - Example: Update from 1.0 to 1.1
4. Application File-name - Example "download.zip" - If filename hasn't changed from previous version, just tell me that it's the same as before
5. After I have sent confirmation that the information you sent me has been updated on the server, Replace X with the updated software version in the example code below:



A good example for code if I personally uploaded with my current autohotkey username (which is HCProfessionals) and an updated application version 1.1:


6. Login to your account at http://northernhost.org/software.

7. Delete and re-upload your software if the updated software's file-name is the same as previous software, otherwise you can just upload as long as the file-name matches what you sent me.

8. You should be good to go.

A super helpful solution would be to post the perl/PHP/Python or whatever script you've scripted so others could put on their own servers.

I do a similar system, just using URLDownloadToFile.

A simple text(or INI) file with all my updated scripts version numbers. (Not very big, as I don't actively update more than a handful of scripts, and mainly just for personal use)

If a script finds that its current version number is lower than the value found in the downloaded file, it launches the updater, which closes the main script, downloads the new one, then launches it instead (all after user prompts).