Stack name of a standaone

Devin Asay devin_asay at byu.edu
Fri Jan 9 17:37:29 EST 2009


On Jan 9, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Eric Chatonet wrote:

> Le 9 janv. 09 à 23:05, Devin Asay a écrit :
>
>> Okay, here's a harder one:
>>
>> How can you find the version number of a stack made into a
>> standalone app? This one has proven even harder than the previous
>> one. I know that the version number information gets stored in the
>> custom property set cRevStandaloneSettings, but those seem to get
>> stripped out when creating the standalone. There is no
>> 'standaloneVersion()' function, as I would like, as compared to
>> 'revAppVersion()', for example.
>
> What about a setProp handler that would be triggered in your stack
> when building your standalone: it would 'report' the same value in
> another custom property that would not suppressed in the standalone.
> Elegant and easy and not too much harder ;-)

Yes, that's what I ended up doing, but I wonder if there is a way to  
get the standalone application version without re-building the  
standalone.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University




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