Actually informations on the application can be obtained directly from the exe file, at least on Windows OS. Informations stored in Build >> Current settings >> Version info panel are stored in the compiled application and can be retrieved with some API calls: the following retrieves the "Product version" string stored in that panel.
char a[50], msg[128], file[MAX_PATHNAME_LEN], langName[16];
UINT len;
DWORD infoSize;
DWORD uselessParm;
DWORD* tempDWORD;
GetProjectDir (file);
MakePathname (file, pgm, file); // Application pathname
if (!(infoSize = GetFileVersionInfoSize (file, &uselessParm)))
goto view;
versionInfo = malloc (infoSize);
if (versionInfo) {
if (!GetFileVersionInfo (file, 0, infoSize, versionInfo))
goto view;
/* Get the Language and Code Page */
/* The below 'hex' value looks a little confusing, but essentially */
/* it is the hexidecimal representation of a couple different values */
/* that represent the language and character set that we are wanting */
/* string values for. 040904E4 is very common, it means: */
/* US English, Windows MultiLingual characterset -- or: */
/* 04------ = SUBLANG_ENGLISH_USA */
/* --09---- = LANG_ENGLISH */
/* --11---- = LANG_JAPANESE */
/* ----04E4 = 1252 = Codepage for Windows:Multilingual */
if (VerQueryValue (versionInfo, TEXT("\\VarFileInfo\\Translation"),
((void **)(&tempDWORD)), &len)) {
/* lVerPointer is a pointer to four 4 bytes of Hex number, first two */
/* bytes are language id, and last two bytes are code page. However, */
/* Lang_Charset_String needs a string of 4 hex digits, the first two */
/* characters correspond to the language id and last two the last two*/
/* character correspond to the code page id. */
langName[0] = 0;
sprintf (langName, "%04hX%04hX", LOWORD (*tempDWORD),
HIWORD (*tempDWORD));
if (langName[0]) {
sprintf (msg, "\\StringFileInfo\\%s\\ProductVersion", langName);
if (!VerQueryValue (versionInfo, TEXT (msg), &tempBuffer, &len) == 0)
if (tempBuffer)
SetCtrlVal (panelHandle, PANEL_VERSION, (char*)tempBuffer); // Show program version
}
}
}
For this to work you need to add version.lib to the project and #include <windows.h> (or at least winver.h: possibly some file more, I don't know)
Tip1: program filename is received by the Main () function in argv[0].
Tip2: do not forget to append a "+" to version fields you want to be incremented on each compilation
