Link-date/time

[Marc Vanzegbroeck]

Hello,

Is there a possibility to retrieve the date/time of the exe when it was created. I know I can retrieve the date of a file with the lfndirectory() function, but I was wondering if there is an internal function to retrieve this.

Thanks,
Marc

[Rick Lipkin]

Mark

I use directory() .. you will have to look at the documentation to see what element represents the time ..

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//-- get date stamp on .exe //

cFILE := GetModuleFileName( GetInstance() )
aDIR  := DIRECTORY( cFILE )
dEXE  := aDIR[1] [3]

[Marc Vanzegbroeck]

Rick,

That's how I also do it now, but I was wondering if there was other function because sometime Windows change the Date/time after copying the file...

Marc

[Antonio Linares]

Marc,

I was recently reviewing how to set a build number into the EXE, in an automatic way.

You could use a FILEVERSION resource information (please review FWH\samples\FileVer.prg). There you could write down the date and time of the build.

Another interesting way is to call a batch file that creates a file with the date and time and such file is included from the main RC file (#include ... ) so you can retrieve them at runtime using LoadString(). Please review fwh\samples\TestStr3.prg

[Marc Vanzegbroeck]

Thanks Antonio,

That's a good solution. I already do something like that to create a setup-file for INNOSETUP.

Regards,
Marc