Autodownloader for free(gratis) legal but not redistributable game content

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 13:38 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:

> Thus I would like to create an (nice userfriendly GUI) autodownloader 
> which can be used by games like this to download the nescesarry files, 
> this should work something like this:
> 
> -user tries to start the game for the first time
> -a dialog is shown to the user explaining that this game needs some 
> additional files and that if the user agrees a connection to the 
> internet will be made to download these files so that the game can be run.
> -If the user agrees a dialog is shown with the license of these files,
> -If the user accepts the license, the files get downloaded and dropped
>   into the proper place.
> -the game gets started normally
> 
> On subsequent runs the game will be started immediatly.

Hans, this is what I need for my OAR project... we plan on using the
$100 laptops and they basically have to be kickstarted almost everytime
they come into use. Ric 
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