Flex application versioning

Question

I'm not referring to CVS or SVN! The thing I would like to do is:

• I want to have a version number of the application ex. 0.0.120
• I want to see this version number only in the About box or similar
• This version number should change everityme I hit debug or release. ex. my version was 0.0.120, after I hit debug in the FlexBuilder, the versionNumber should change to 0.0.121, but If I press Release Build, then the version should change to 0.1.0
• The first number changes only when I manually change it

Don't know how is this possible but if you have a tip, let me know. Thanks!

Answer 1

I think Flex Builder doesn't have this out of the box, but you can build ant script for that and build your application with it:

http://blog.nirav.name/2008/02/how-to-auto-increament-version-build-id.html

Answer 2

This is typically something you support with frameworks such as maven. There is actually a maven plugin for flex here

mico's trick is nice though

Answer 3

Have a look at this article http://www.igorcosta.org/?p=220. I use this method to keep tract of compilation date of my swfs.

Credits goes to Paul Sivtsov.