Application Information - how to read from settings

[Richard Gaskin]

Mark Stuart wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> Now that you gave me the custom property name, I searched the archive for
> it, and found very helpful information on how to find the Standalone
> properties in the main stack.
>
> I think this kind of stuff should be readily available to a rev developer
> and not "hidden" in a custom property, as it does not appear in a search in
> the Dictionary or in the User Guide. These are the basic things for a
> developer to want to access, for their application.

They're just custom properties.  As Jacque noted, they're readily 
accessible in the IDE through the Inspector.

I agree that particular set of props is very useful, because they 
contain the essentials that define much of your app:  its name, version, 
document types, etc.

With that info stored in one tidy place, all sorts of tools can use it 
to make generalized components, from version management to installers 
and frameworks and a whole lot more.

I believe Trevor's framework uses it, as do mine and Ken's, and it's 
been proposed in the Rev Interoperability Group that we use them 
whenever practical going forward:

<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/revInterop/>

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