Displaying App Version

General
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Hi all,
I have written my App…and it works fine after building on Win10 and Catalina (open champagne bottle after porting from a VB6 app)

My issue seems simple. All I want to do is display the App Version number in an About box.

My App lis called LandsatTools and I tried:

MessageBox(LandsatTools.LongVersion)

but this throws up an error with a red bug saying This Item does not exist

Changing it to:

MessageBox(App.LongVersion)

works just fine…but the message box is blank.

I would be grateful if someone could please show me what I am doing wrong

Many thanks
Mark

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http://documentation.xojo.com/api/language/app.htmllication

http://documentation.xojo.com/api/deprecated/application.html#application-version

other exists…

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Thanks Emile
I still get the same blank message box when I use the App.Version as suggested in the documentation:

MessageBox(App.Version)

If I use the notation:

MessageBox(LandsatTools.Version)

it still says Item does not exist!

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Go to the Shared build settings. Anything in the “Version” box will be what shows in App.Version. I suspect you want to display the Major and Minor versions, which you can build into a string using App.MajorVersion and App.MinorVersion.

MessageBox(App.MajorVersion + “.” + App.MinorVersion + “.” + App.BugVersion)

Does that work?

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[quote=492284:@Mark Cresswell]If I use the notation:

MessageBox(LandsatTools.Version)[/quote]
Where do you read this kind of code in Xojo ?

Use App.Version not .Version or what Bill wrote above.

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Thanks Bill

That actually throws up an error message. I fixed it by converting the version digits to a string:

MessageBox(App.MajorVersion.tostring + "." + App.MinorVersion.tostring + "." + App.BugVersion.tostring)

That version now works fine.

Thanks
Mark

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Whoops, that’s what I get for doing it in the browser and not testing my code first. LOL