AutoHotkey Community

I think most users that already know AHK are directly
going to the forum if they want infos, but also if they
go directly to the AHK-Page (www.autohotkey.com) they
cannot directly see what is the latest version.

Is it possible to add a little line like
"latest AHK-version is x.xx.xx.xx" on the AHK-Main-Page
and maybe also at to of the Forum-Index-Page

It's not much work but make things more comfortable.

_________________
Wer keine Antworten hat muss nicht dumm sein,
dumm ist nur der welcher keine Fragen hat.

It's a good suggestion. I'm not sure about the forum, since it might be more difficult to add it discreetly there, but certainly on the main page.

Thanks.

Perhaps a sticky in the Announcements section? Also, a tiny RSS page would serve the purpose for anyone with an RSS reader or an RSS-bookmark compatible browser (such as most Gecko ones, i.e. Firefox). I know it'd be cool for me to have a little version indicator in my browser.

On the flip side, I know all these little things add up for you when you update. Perhaps you could make a script to do it all at once.

I do have script that automates most of the build process. And one of these days, I'll try to add some RSS capability (it's a new area for me).

Thanks for the ideas.

Thanks for making the changes to the AHK-Page.

_________________
Wer keine Antworten hat muss nicht dumm sein,
dumm ist nur der welcher keine Fragen hat.

Hello, did you get the RSS running?
Guido

No, not yet. I'm sure there's a mod for it somewhere, but mods usually increase time spent on forum maintainence. Even so, I'll keep an eye out for one.

Could switching on subscription only for annoucement a solution? OK, that's your server load...

Or - maybe - just writing out textfile like www.autohotkey.com/currentversion.txt just containing the version string? Than everybody who likes can implement a version checker in his famous script...

Guido

I'm a little cloudy on what you're proposing.

Uh, sorry - If a text-file under a given URL exist (e.g. www.autohotkey.com/currentversion.txt) and it contains just one line with A_AhkVersion everbody who want's can


Like RSS without XML

Guido

Thanks for clarifying. That file already exists at:
http://www.autohotkey.com/download/CurrentVersion.txt

It was added to facilitate auto-update tools such as:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5451
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1867