WildGums/Orc.Squirrel

samirem

@samirem

as far as I know, at the end of squirrel installation the app is started

and then in my application I run the "SquirrelHelper.HandleSquirrelAutomatically();" to check if the app was just installed

that shows the window from Orc.Squirrel.Xaml, with a "run" button to run the app

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

that all looks good

samirem

@samirem

and when my user press this button, then the problem occurs

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

what you can do is enable debug logging for your app

in app config, add this

  <configSections>
    <sectionGroup name="catel">
      <section name="logging" type="Catel.Logging.LoggingConfigurationSection, Catel.Core" />
    </sectionGroup>
  </configSections>

  <catel>
    <logging>
      <listeners>
        <!--TODO: the line below must be commented out in stable release-->
        <!--<listener type="Catel.Logging.FileLogListener" IgnoreCatelLogging="true" IsDebugEnabled="true" IsInfoEnabled="true" IsWarningEnabled="true" IsErrorEnabled="true" />-->
      </listeners>
    </logging>
  </catel>

then you can easily uncomment the line when you want debug logging in production

samirem

@samirem

What should I look for in the log file? (i.e., what namespace produces the startupfailed.txt file?)

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

something in orchestra, not 100 % sure

samirem

@samirem

16:52:08:757 => [DEBUG] [Orchestra.Services.EnsureStartupService] [1] Creating fail safe file check
16:52:08:758 => [DEBUG] [Orc.FileSystem.FileService] [1] Creating file 'C:\Users\SESAEM\AppData\Roaming\Construction Software\Continuous Beam\startupfailed.txt'

nothing strange before this

oh wait a second, it seems like my second app starts before my first app has closed, like you pointed out

samirem

@samirem

my app is doing a lot of startup stuff even after this line:
16:52:05:939 => [INFO] [Orc.Squirrel.SquirrelHelper] [1] Closing application
Should it not break the startup process here and shut down asap?

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

your app should shut down, but not sure if it's something that's done automatically or whether you should be doing that

it's something we embed in our apps by default, so a long time ago when we wrote this

samirem

@samirem

@GeertvanHorrik
It seems that the "IsUpdatedInstalled" is never set to true, even if the application was updated.
https://github.com/WildGums/Orc.Squirrel/blob/develop/src/Orc.Squirrel/Orc.Squirrel.Shared/Services/UpdateService.cs#L210

In my observations, the exit code is always 0, even if the application was successfully updated.

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

Correct, we use a custom build of Squirrel with exit codes that make sense

samirem

@samirem

Oh cool, is this available for me to use as well?

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

if you want, yes

but I didn't have a lot of time to keep it up-to-date to be honest, so it's a bit outdated, but works great for us

I tried several times to PR these features but Paul doesn't seem really open to these ideas

the fork can be found at https://github.com/geertvanhorrik/squirrel.windows/tree/pr/semver

samirem

@samirem

That's a shame.. For me it is necessary to get some feedback if application was updated or not, does he prefer another method of doing this? I saw something about standardoutput

Thanks for the fork, I think it will work great for me as well even if it's not up-to-date

Do you think it's an alternative to update the Orc.Squirrel library to use "his" method instead of exit codes?

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

I don't know what his exit codes are, at the time I wrote all of this, there were no exit codes

and since we have to maintain 60+ libs, we have to prioritize, so never bothered looking into this again (since it works fine for us)

samirem

@samirem

I totally get it, "if it ain't broken, why fix it?" ;)

But would it be of interest if I did a PR on this? I could investigate how the "official" squirrel way to do this would be, and try to implement it in Orc.Squirrel

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

definitely, we would be open to that :)

samirem

@samirem

Cool, I'll let you know if I need some guidance. I hope that I can find some time for this soon

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

My tip: first create a ticket and discuss it on the squirrel repo before doing anything

samirem

@samirem

Thanks for the tip, that sounds like a good way to start

samirem

@samirem

@GeertvanHorrik You told me earlier that you show a statusbar icon after the app has been updated. How do you show it? Some Orc.XX-package, or code you can't share?

Geert van Horrik

@GeertvanHorrik

I think LogViewer (app) also does something like this

it shows how we use it in our internal apps as well

see https://github.com/WildGums/LogViewer/blob/develop/src/LogViewer/Views/StatusBarView.xaml

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