add updater (maybe)

NEWS.md

@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
-# milQuant 1.0.1 _tba_
+# milQuant 1.0.1 _2023-03-05_
 * clean up main.js a lot, restructure directory
 * restructure the menu bar at the top and add links to GitHub, the Miletus Excavation Homepage, and an about-window
 * add a modal for default settings to the topmenu so users have custom default connection settingson their computer and don't need to reenter password
 * remove bug where app would exit on every output from shiny
+* add electron-updater/autoUpdater
 * from milQuant: 
     * the connection settings (name/pw) are reusable (with milQuant-dist)
     * improved plot legends and added bar plot display options
     * fixed period order in pottery & quant B plots
     * fixed issue with dates
     * use plotly for all graphs
-    * add a workflow overview to allfinds plot
+    * add a workflow overview
     * add object table to pottery plot
 
 # milQuant 1.0.0 _2023-02-21_

R-win-port/load_packages.R

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 packages <- c("shiny", "shinydashboard", "shinycssloaders", "shinyjs", "shinyWidgets",
-              "ggplot2", "dplyr", "reshape2", "viridis", "forcats", "tidyr",
+              "ggplot2", "dplyr", "reshape2", "viridis", "forcats", "tidyr", "DT",
               "remotes", "idaifieldR", "sofa", "plotly",
               "glue")
 for (p in packages) {
     if (p == "idaifieldR") {
       remotes::install_github("lsteinmann/idaifieldR@v0.2.2", lib = "library/", force = TRUE)
     } else {
-      install.packages(p, lib = "library/")
+      install.packages(p, lib = "library/", repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')
     }
 }
 rm(packages, p)

main.js

@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@ const fs = require('fs');
 const child = require('child_process');
 
 const { readDefaultSettings, settingsFileName } = require('./imports/settings');
-const { handleSquirrelEvent } = require('./imports/squirrel-handler')
 
+const { autoUpdater } = require('electron-updater')
+autoUpdater.checkForUpdatesAndNotify()
+
+console.log(autoUpdater.getFeedURL())
 
 // not great to do that, maybe try to choose a random port?
 const port = "3002"
@@ -98,6 +101,7 @@ childProcess.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
 
 // with delayedLoad() : first, an empty loading.html is loaded, then after a 3-second timeout, the shiny url
 // this avoids the white screen that occurs if the windows loads before shiny is actually ready
+// TODO: Probably better to make this wait for shiny Listening.. notification in next version
 const delay = ms => new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, ms));
 const delayedLoad = async () => {
   mainWindow.loadFile('loading.html')

package.json

@@ -35,5 +35,8 @@
     "@electron-forge/maker-zip": "^6.0.5",
     "electron": "^23.1.1",
     "electron-squirrel-startup": "^1.0.0"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "electron-updater": "^5.3.0"
   }
 }