Re: My app does not display its version in the finder
Re: My app does not display its version in the finder
- Subject: Re: My app does not display its version in the finder
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 11:15:35 -0700
- Thread-topic: My app does not display its version in the finder
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 16:04:18 +0200, j o a r <email@hidden> said:
>
>On 6 jun 2006, at 15.01, Graham wrote:
>
>> My app's version displays in the About Box, but when selected in
>> the Finder, the Version field is absent.
>> Is there an info.plist item I need to add to make this happen?
>
>Cocoa developers should read (and probably bookmark) this article:
>
><http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
>BPRuntimeConfig/index.html>
>
>I frequently use it as a reference to the Info.plist keys.
It doesn't help, though, that in Tiger the behavior of these keys was
changed in such a way as to make it harder to do the very thing the OP wants
to do. The CFBundleGetInfoString used to have the version information
appended to it. Now Apple has removed the CFBundleGetInfoString from the
template, and recomends that you just use the CFBundleVersion, which shows
up in the About box but NOT in the Finder. In effect, Apple has suddenly
made it much harder for developers to make it easy (sorry about that phrase)
to learn what version an app is. I regard this as a terrible mistake, and
perhaps, indeed, a kind of security failure. I should not have to run an app
in order to learn its version; indeed, knowing an app's version is often a
criterion for deciding whether to run it. m.
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