How does a running Delphi program access the date of its compilation?
Rainer
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You may find these two articles by Phil Brown on
http://www.howtodothings.com useful.

The first on "Standardising Application Builds" provides some background
information.

The second on "Adding Version Information To Applications" investigates the
means by which version information can be made available within an
application, writing a class which can be incorporated into any new
development.

HTH

PC

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From: "Rainer von Saleski" <rainer (AT) vonsaleski (DOT) com>
To: <delphi (AT) elists (DOT) org>
Sent: Friday, 28, 2005 7:29 PM
Subject: Accessing Compilation Date

How does a running Delphi program access the date of its compilation?

Rainer

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Rob Kennedy wrote:

Rainer von Saleski wrote:
>How does a running Delphi program access the date of its compilation?
>
If you managed to get it to contain that date in the first place,
shouldn't you already know how to retrieve it?

If I had placed the date in the program, yes, I would have known how to
retreive it :-)

Delphi doesn't put the compilation date in the programs it produces.

Aha! A useful answer! Hard to believe, but useful.

*delphi*

Even more useful! This led me to the (less than obvious) nesting of
functions
to retreive the file date of the EXE file. Thank you!

Rainer

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From: "Rainer von Saleski" <rainer (AT) vonsaleski (DOT) comwrote

How does a running Delphi program access the date of its
< compilation?

Is this what you want?

function GetCompilationDate: tDateTime;
begin
Result := FileDatetoDateTime(FileAge (Application.ExeName));
end;

Henry Bartlett
email: hambar at microtech dot com dot au

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At 04:29 AM 29/10/2005, Rainer von Saleski wrote:
>How does a running Delphi program access the date of its compilation?
>
>Rainer

Hello Rainer,

I'm not sure if you've got an answer for this, but in D3 I used an "expert"
which provided this function for me. It's available for D3, D4 & D5 from

Cheers,
Chris.

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