Re: Getting a carbon's info string

FROM : Frederick Cheung
DATE : Fri Nov 05 18:01:34 2004

On 5 Nov 2004, at 15:50, Dan Saul wrote:

> Wow you really went in depth there, I thank you for that, however I
> suppose due to to my lack of clarity, what i meant was to get the
> version of the app itself. What I am trying to do is  write an
> updating system for game, so I need to get the version number of the
> game before I can act on it.
>
> For applications with info(strings) that is easy, but for carbon
> applications not so much.


A bundled carbon app will have an info.plist, for an unbundled one, the
plst(0) resource will contain the same data as its info.plist would
contain if had one. For even older apps, you  need to look at its vers
resources.

Fred