Version number, Splash screen, Auto-update

[Scott Morrow]

If you are wanting to use Sarah's scripting (thanks for posting that,  
Sarah) to help with an updater then it might be useful to have a  
generalized method for locating PlistBuddy.  Ken Ray supplied part of  
this one.  (Paste into the message box:)

go url "http://www.elementarysoftware.com/rev-examples/PlistBuddy-Locator.rev 
"

Scott Morrow

Elementary Software
(Now with 20% less chalk dust!)
web       http://elementarysoftware.com/
email     scott at elementarysoftware.com
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On Jun 29, 2009, at 5:21 AM, George C Brackett wrote:

> Very helpful utility, Sarah -- thank you very much!  Clicking your  
> url crashed Firefox, so I recommend instead using the Message Box  
> and typing
> go url "http://troz.troz.on-rev.com/stacks/PlistEditor.rev"
>
> George
>
> On Jun 29, 2009, at 2:21 AM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
>
>>>> If I make an OS X standalone I can check the version number in  
>>>> the Finder
>>>> using 'Get Info'.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> I use a utility I wrote that reads the info.plist file and allows  
>>> you
>>> to change the version number stored there.
>>> When you save the new version data, the app is "touched" which not
>>> only makes it show the updated data from info.plist, but it changes
>>> the app's modification date to the current date.
>>> It isn't very neat, but it works well and if people are  
>>> interested, I
>>> would be happy to make it available.
>>
>> Yes please.
>
> You can download the stack from
> <http://troz.troz.on-rev.com/stacks/PlistEditor.rev>
> I added some basic help, so read it to see how it works.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
>
> P.S. This is just a temporary address while I work out my new web
> site, so if you try the download in a couple of weeks and it fails,
> try going to www.troz.net and searching there instead.
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