[Laszlo-user] Build Info

[P T Withington]

The debug version is formatted to the debug console (and only  
available in debug).  The canvas version is available in all apps and  
returns a string that can be displayed by your application.

Maybe file an improvement request to add the app compile timestamp to  
that info...

On 2007-10-30, at 13:22 EDT, Henry Minsky wrote:

> The actual call to get the info as a string is
>
> LzCanvas.versionInfoString()
>
>
>
> On 10/30/07, Henry Minsky <henry.minsky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm, that's a good idea, I don't think the compiler bakes the  date  
>> that
>> the app was compiled into the app anyplace. It does bake in the  
>> information
>> on the version of LPS that is running though:
>>
>> Debug.versionInfo ()
>>
>> will return a string like this
>> Debug.versionInfo
>>
>> lzx> Debug.versionInfo
>> ()
>> URL:
>>
>> http://127.0.0.1:8080/trunk/test/forum2/main.lzx?lzt=object&lzt=object&lzr=dhtml&debug=true&lzbacktrace=true
>>
>> Version: 4.1.x.0
>> Release: Latest
>> Build: 7031 C:\users\hqm\openlaszlo\trunk
>> Date: 2007-10-28T20:54:17-0400
>> Target: dhtml
>> Runtime: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv: 1.8.1.8)
>> Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
>> lzx>
>>
>> On 10/30/07, Rich Christiansen <warproof at warproof.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm currently dealing with the unpleasant headache of tracking  
>>> various
>>> installations of different versions of my SOLO app.  I've added
>>> functionality to display the version number of the app, but I'd also
>>> like to include a build number.  In fact, I'd prefer to just use the
>>> time at which the app was built if that's possible.
>>>
>>> How could I go about doing this?  Some sort of preprocessing  
>>> directive?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance! :)
>>> -Rich
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Henry Minsky
>> Software Architect
>> hminsky at laszlosystems.com
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Henry Minsky
> Software Architect
> hminsky at laszlosystems.com