Why does the text on the update control disappear?It writes a message, then after a few seconds the text vanishes?
You're talking about the animation, correct? The AutomaticUpdater hides itself when the user's mouse isn't hovering over it. We designed it this way because your app is the star not our updater. That is, the user doesn't care about updates but does care about your app.
Does this make sense?
I guess I have a different usage than your design allows.
I can't put this control on the main form. I have to place it on a dialog. The dialog is invoked from a "check for updates" menu item. In the dialog's load event I call ForceCheckForUpdate. The dialog has 2 buttons, one for the updater command text (which I think you intended for a menu item), which is updated via events as per your devexpress sample, and a cancel button.
The dialog needs a status message and I thought the control would provide this. But the animation's text is ephemeral, so I don't know how to keep the user informed of what's going on.
This is for .net 3.5 windows forms.
The AutomaticUpdater control is designed to go on the main form. It will not work properly on other forms. Put the AutomaticUpdater on your main form and if you don't like the normal UI of the AutomaticUpdater then set Visible = false and KeepHidden = true and use the "ProgressChanged" event to keep the user informed about the update steps.
