Re: Getting a carbon's info string

FROM : M. Uli Kusterer
DATE : Fri Nov 05 19:26:15 2004

At 9:50 Uhr -0600 05.11.2004, Dan Saul wrote:
>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.


  You're mixing things up here. That has nothing to do with Carbon.
That is related to bundled vs. unbundled applications. A bundled
Carbon app has an Info.plist.

  For unbundled applications, you will have to look at the app's
resources. NDResourceFork by Nathan Day should come in handy there.
Looks for a 'plst' resource with ID 0 (zero). If you get that, its
contents are the same as the Info.plist file would be.

  If there's no 'plst' resource, you'll have to get the 'vers'
resource with ID 1. It contains the version in binary coded decimal,
and some other info.
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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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