[Lazarus] Application Information

[Hew Lines]

On 2013-12-23 11:18 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> On 23/12/2013 20:16, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> On 23/12/2013 20:13, 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:
>>>> 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.
>> Cross-platform; see
>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fcl-res
>> there's file version code in fcl-res as well.
>>
> And
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_Trunk#TVersionInfo_.28fileinfo_unit.29_re-implemented_in_a_platform_independent_way
>
> no idea whether this has been backported to FPC 2.6.2/4...
>
> --
> _______
Thanks Reinier. Greatly appreciated.

Hew


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