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• User Var for QAP version number?

  kunkel321 > 2021-12-09 16:58

  Is it possible to have the QAP version number in a user var?  
  
  Like:
  {QAPVersion}
  or something like that.

• RE: User Var for QAP version number?

  joeNOR > 2021-12-10 06:35

  You could do a quick fix with PowerShell.
  
  Read the file version:
  

  Code:

  (Get-Command .\quickaccesspopup-64-bit.exe).FileVersionInfo.FileVersion

  
  Then set the output to an env var like QAPversion.
  Note this only sets the var for the current session.
  
  There are other ways to set it "globally", like the .Net class method
  

  Code:

  [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(String, String)

  
  Quick and dirty script, qapver.ps1
  

  Code:

  $QAPtempver = (Get-Command .\quickaccesspopup-64-bit.exe).FileVersionInfo.FileVersion
[System.Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('QAPversion', $QAPtempver, [System.EnvironmentVariableTarget]::User)

  
  NOTE!
  This sets the variable for the current user.
  The variable QAPversion will NOT be visible in the current session, you have to open a new command line session to see it (from the command line).
  To use Machine as target I would guess that PowerShell needs to run in admin context.
  
  Regards,
  joeNOR

• RE: User Var for QAP version number?

  kunkel321 > 2021-12-10 09:37

  Wow very cool! Thanks Joe. Now I'm curious, could this be done with any program that I have installed? Are there other types of properties that can be checked?

• RE: User Var for QAP version number?

  joeNOR > 2021-12-10 09:52

  Yes, in theory this approach works for any exe and dll containing version information.
  
  BUT (there is always one), there are some discussions online about how bulletproof it is. It mostly depends on how the files stores the version information.
  So, for most cases this should probably work. QAP is very well behaved, and this works fine. On the system where I write this I had the QAP beta installed, upgraded to 11.5.3, ran the script and the variable got updated from 11.5.2-something.
  
  You can check for other properties, but specifics are easier to deal with, what do you want to check?
  
  -jN

• RE: User Var for QAP version number?

  kunkel321 > 2021-12-10 16:51

  (2021-12-10 09:52)joeNOR Wrote: [...] what do you want to check?

  
  Really nothing particular... I was just curious what the technology can do. I've never really worked with PowerShell, but I probably should.

• RE: User Var for QAP version number?

  joeNOR > 2021-12-11 12:49

  PowerShell can do a huge amount of stuff, the way in is probably to start with the doc-pages at Microsoft.
  
  -jN

• RE: User Var for QAP version number?

  joeNOR > 2021-12-16 11:40

  @kunkel321:
  An old thread originally, but updated.
  A good illustration on the versatility of PowerShell with the "read version" problem as an example.
  
  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3068...powershell
  
  Regards,
  joeNOR

• RE: User Var for QAP version number?

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-12-20 14:17

  Sorry for jumping late in this thread. Yes, this can be done. Added:
  https://forum.quickaccesspopup.com/showt...p?tid=1846
  
  Would you just give an example of the usage of the {QAPVersion} user variable?

• RE: User Var for QAP version number?

  kunkel321 > 2021-12-21 10:09

  My idea with the version number was tied-in with the idea of having {UserVars} in Text Separators.  Like this below.   I can't really think of another use.   Like you pointed out in the other forum thread, variables are not expanded when the pop up pops up, so this is probably moot. 
  
  

• RE: User Var for QAP version number?

  Jean Lalonde > 2021-12-21 11:01

  Thanks for the follow up, Steve.
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