Version info in cout.

[Nulcheck]

Hello, I'm new to C++ I started it like a week ago in this class I'm taking.

So i'm making some little fun adventure thing and at the beginning I want to display the version of the game. I was wondering if there was a way to implement the version info from the project properties into a cout message thing.

Thanks!

[long int main]

Are you just using console application(no images and stuff)?

[Nulcheck]

yeah, that's all we're doing in the class so far. i think later on the school year we'll be doing stuff with images

[Nulcheck]

So is there a way to do this..?

[mutexe]

Have a header file in your project containing integers constants to hold your major/minor version number. then have a method to build up a string of this eg:

std::string GetVersionNumber()
{

....// build up the version string e.g. "12.4.2"
}

then call this when you want to print it.

[AbstractionAnon]

What platform?

Windows (.NET) has the Version class.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.version(v=vs.110).aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=cpp#code-snippet-1

It would be a whole lot simpler to include a version variable in your source code and update it when you change your program.

 
  const string program_version = "1.0";

  cout << "My game version: " << program_version << endl;