[Lazarus] Application Information

[Hew Lines]

On 2013-12-23 11:13 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Apologies for reformatting the message to conform to the usual 
> bottom-posting convention.
>
> Hew Lines wrote:
>> On 2013-12-23 9:18 AM, Bart wrote:
>>> On 12/23/13, Hew Lines <hewlines at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can anyone give me any ideas on how to access the data in the Project
>>>> Application dialogue ? Specifically the Version Number. I would 
>>>> like to
>>>> include the Version Number in both my About box as well as the 
>>>> Title Bar
>>>> of the main form but I have been unable to figure out how to access 
>>>> the
>>>> data stored in the Project Information dialogue.
>>> >From some project of mine.
>>>
>>>    LazVersion := 'Lazarus '+ LCLVersion;
>>>    FpcVersion := 'FPC ' + {$I %FPCVERSION%};
>>>
>>> The Lazarus revision resides in ide/revision.inc, but I'm not sur
>>> eit's wise to include it in your project?
> >
> > Thanks Bart but that's not quite what I'm looking for. I'm looking for
> > the version number of the compiled application. It is set in the 
> Version
> > Info panel of the Project Options dialogue box and auto-incremented 
> with
> > every build. I know that I can do it manually but am trying to see if I
> > can simply read the auto-incremented value from the Version Info
> > maintained by Lazarus.
>
> I recall previous discussion of this. From what I remember you have to 
> read resource information from the executable and that's OS-specific: 
> I don't know whether anybody's consolidated this into a single class yet.
>
> http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/attachments/20100723/8db6b97e/attachment.ksh 
>
>
> That's from a thread on the 22/23rd July '10, refer to the archive for 
> detail.
>
Thanks Mark. Looks like exactly what I was looking for.

Hew