I’m happy to announce the release of v1.0 of the GAotD Launcher! After getting some ideas from JohnRR003 from the GAotD Forums. I decided it would be an excellent programming project. It features support for both the standard GAotD offering as well as the Game GAotD offering. It includes features such as preventing the user from any action after the process starts so that if some windows such as registration info boxes come up, it would let the user know that there is still more to do before the software is activated. So far this has been tested on 3 computers in the house. But I definately would want reports of any bugs should people experience anything.
The terms of use upon installing this software is quite simply, it’s freeware and I’ve programmed it to the best of my ability. I cannot be held responsible if anything goes wrong. Please submit all bugs and feature requests to me at tjchan@gmail.com.
What this program does:
1. Check offerings.
2. Download offerings.
3. Un-zips the file.
4. Run installer(s) (this includes activation stuff).
5. Deletes files downloaded.
As soon as you launch the program, it will connect to get ticker information. If the ticker does not show up, then something is wrong with your connection (it may take up to 5-10 seconds for it to show up). Perhaps I should talk to the GAotD team and get this program to be official. For now though it’s one of those projects in which it was just plain fun to write and it was a challenge as I’ve never done something like this before!