Download Patches

IDE Dialog

This dialog is displayed when you choose Help | Download Patches. It provides a window interface to update-allegro. In order for this dialog to work, the computer running Allegro CL must be able to make an FTP connection to the internet. (If your local network has a firewall, this dialog may not be usabe to download patches. update-allegro has arguments, not settable with this dialog, that allow downloading to work in such situations.)

Displaying available patch information and downloading patches can take time. When you request those actions, a dialog reminds you of this fact and allows cancelling the request.

The display portion of the dialog displays (when commanded - it is blank when the dialog is first displayed) available patches, along with a checkbox to indicate whether or not the patch should be downloaded). The command buttons are (the radio buttons are described with the Download button):

Download:: if clicked, the patch set indicated by the radio buttons above the button are downloaded onto your machine. The radio buttons specify whether just new and updated patches (determined by examining patches already downloaded), all patches, or just selected patches (selected with the checkboxes in the patch list) are downloaded when this button is clicked.
List All New Patches: displays in the display portion of this dialog a list of all new (to you) and updated patches.
List All Patches: displays in the display portion of this dialog a list of all patches, whether or not new to you.
Close: close the dialog.

Common Graphics and IDE documentation is described in About Common Graphics and IDE documentation in cgide.htm.

The documentation is described in introduction.htm and the index is in index.htm.

Created 2000.10.5.