GetCurrentVersion

This article applies to Windows only.

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This article deals with Windows programming.

The function determines the current version of your own program.

  uses
   Windows, SysUtils, ...;

   ...

 function funGetCurrentVersion: string;
 var
   lwdVerInfoSize: longword;
   lwdVerValueSize: longword;
   lwdDummy: longword;
   ptrVerInfo: pointer;
   VersionsInformation: PVSFixedFileInfo;

 begin

   lwdVerInfoSize: = GetFileVersionInfoSize(PChar(ParamStr(0)), lwdDummy);
   GetMem(ptrVerInfo, lwdVerInfoSize);
   GetFileVersionInfo(PChar(ParamStr(0)), 0, lwdVerInfoSize, ptrVerInfo);
   VerQueryValue (ptrVerInfo, '\', Pointer(VersionsInformation), lwdVerValueSize);

   with VersionsInformation^ do
   begin
     Result: = IntToStr (dwFileVersionMS shr 16);
     Result: = Result + '.'  + IntToStr(dwFileVersionMS and $ FFFF);
     Result: = Result + '.'  + IntToStr(dwFileVersionLS shr 16);
     Result: = Result + '.'  + IntToStr(dwFileVersionLS and $ FFFF);
   end;

   FreeMem(ptrVerInfo, lwdVerInfoSize);

 end;

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