SyMenu Published App Track: One of the tasks of the SPS publisher app is to verify the app updates.
This can be done quickly by monitoring changes of the ChangeLog page or the download links page with any program.
Inspired in WebMon (screenshots) by Colin Markwell, with this plugin you can easy track your SPS published apps.
1) The plugin collects your SPS published apps from the SyMenuSuite\_Cache folder.
2) In the plugin you can write:
• Your own Track URL (for instance to the ChangeLog page),
• The Start and Stop string of your track block
3) The plugin hashes the Track Block in order to save the web “photo”
4) In Track mode, it verify:
• The Track hashes modification(¿Alert of app update?)
• The download url and size (¿Is your published app ok?)
Nowadays, the web page protections make difficult a 100% sure verification, but I only have found 1% of false detection even in https protocol.
And more …., if you set empty the publisher name, you can get all the SPS Suite and sort by the creation an modification file dates.
By default, it charge my own SPS Published list as example.
Installation
Present in SyMenu Program Suite.
Help:
Prerequisites: SyMenu version 5.05 or higher + .NET Framework v.4.6.1
File: SyMenu_Published_App_Track_V_5_2
‘CHANGELOG:
‘2018.03.01-V.5.2: Corrected little bugs of change the colors in second track or change the strings in edit track.
‘2018.02.27-V.5.1: Download size test improvements (now works with SourceForge).
‘2018.02.25-V.5.0: TLS 1.2 protocol supported (but now needed .NET Framework v.4.6.1). Download size test improvements.
‘2017.02.26-V.4.0: Added menu bar and config file ConfigPAT.txt. Now Help opens forum topic.
‘2017.02.05-V.3.0: Using contextual menu and allow several Edit form.
‘2017.02.03-V.2.0: Futherly only SPS App flavour (not Launcher needed) named SPS Published App Track (PAT).
‘ Added SPS Builder call with local sps file copy (temporaly located in “SyMenuSuite\_Trash\_TmpPAT”).
‘2017.01.11-V.1.4b: Corrected the bug saving files with the pluging execute with Launcher (in the SPS app flavour)
‘2017.01.09-V.1.4: Showed version in the window title. Added more search options. Corrected some bugs.
‘2017.01.05-V.1.3: Added Tooltips.
‘ Manage sps Or zip _Cache SPS Suite files. (SyMenu version superior To Version 5.07.6190 [2016.12.13])
‘ Added SPS Publisher column (so the ancient ~SPSPublisherName~ becomes To ~SPSTrackerName~).
‘ Allows several SPS Publisher names in the SPS Tracker Name
‘2016.12.18-V.1.2: Now in SPS stand alone program too as: SyMenu Published App Track (Others – Specialized Editors). Thanks Gian.
‘2016.11.10-V.1.2: Corrected some bugs. Full automatic SyMenu plugin detection.
‘2016.10.10-V.1.1: Added App Icon, Version and Release Date. Corrected some bugs. Know issue: Not automatic SyMenu plugin detection.
‘2016.10.02-V.0.1: First published version.
‘ISSUES:
‘1)In tracking operation, the Listview refresh makes some flash, ¿Is it possible to correct? If I delete the refresh I don’t see the item colour change (green or red).
‘2)All -TrackBlockHash- finish with ‘==’ ¿why?
‘TODOLIST/DEMANDED FEATURES (Not retained):
‘1)Is it possible in edit form to show the page in rendered form too? Now I can see it only in plain html form. The .NET framework comes with a control which is called WebBrowser that allows you to show a rendered page. You could even embed an entire browser inside a winforms program but it’s too much for our needs.
‘2) Auto email to the publisher in a Track Change