Unidata · lesserwhirls · Sep 2, 2025 · Sep 2, 2025 · Sep 2, 2025
@@ -52,3 +52,14 @@ application {
 }
 
 jar.manifest.attributes 'Main-Class': 'ucar.nc2.ui.ToolsUI'
+
+def genBuildInfo = tasks.register("generateBuildInfo", WriteProperties) {
+    destinationFile = getLayout().buildDirectory.file("resources/main/toolsui.properties")
+    comment = "Application configuration generated by Gradle"
+    encoding = "UTF-8"
+
+    property("toolsui.version", project.version)
+    property("toolsui.buildTimestamp", project.buildTimestamp)  // Defined in root project.
+}
+
+processResources.dependsOn(genBuildInfo)
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata
+ * See LICENSE for license information.
+ */
+
+package ucar.nc2.ui;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+public class BuildInfo {
+
+  private static final org.slf4j.Logger log = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(BuildInfo.class);
+
+  private final String version, timestamp;
+
+  BuildInfo(String version, String timestamp) {
+    this.version = version;
+    this.timestamp = timestamp;
+  }
+
+  public String getVersion() {
+    return version;
+  }
+
+  public String getTimestamp() {
+    return timestamp;
+  }
+
+  static BuildInfo getToolsUIBuildInfo() {
+    Properties buildProps = new Properties();
+    try (InputStream stream = ToolsUI.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("toolsui.properties")) {
+      buildProps.load(stream);
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      log.error("Error reading build properties");
+    }
+    return new BuildInfo(buildProps.getProperty("toolsui.version", "Unknown"),
+        buildProps.getProperty("toolsui.buildTimestamp", "Unknown"));
+  }
+
+}
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998-2019 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata
+ * Copyright (c) 1998-2025 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata
  * See LICENSE for license information.
  */
 
 package ucar.nc2.ui;
 
-import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import ucar.ui.util.Resource;
 import ucar.ui.widget.BAMutil;
 import java.awt.BorderLayout;
@@ -19,10 +18,6 @@
 import java.awt.Toolkit;
 import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
 import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
-import java.io.IOException;
 import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
 import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
 import javax.swing.JFrame;
@@ -42,7 +37,8 @@ public ToolsAboutWindow(JFrame parent) {
     super(parent);
 
     JLabel lab1 = new JLabel("<html> <body bgcolor=\"#FFECEC\"> <center>"
-        + "<h1>Netcdf Tools User Interface (ToolsUI)</h1>" + "<b>" + getVersion() + "</b>"
+        + "<h1>Netcdf Tools User Interface (ToolsUI)</h1>" + "<b>" + BuildInfo.getToolsUIBuildInfo().getVersion()
+        + "</b>" + "<br>Build Date: " + "<b>" + BuildInfo.getToolsUIBuildInfo().getTimestamp() + "</b>"
         + "<br><i>https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/</i>"
         + "<br><b><i>Developers:</b> John Caron, Sean Arms, Dennis Heimbinger, Ryan May, Christian Ward-Garrison</i></b>"
         + "</center>" + "<br><br>With thanks to these <b>Open Source</b> contributors:" + "<ul>"
@@ -120,23 +116,6 @@ public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
    *
    */
   private String getVersion() {
-    String version;
-    try (InputStream is = Resource.getFileResource("/README")) {
-      if (is == null) {
-        return "5.0";
-      }
-      BufferedReader dataIS = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
-      StringBuilder sbuff = new StringBuilder();
-      for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
-        sbuff.append(dataIS.readLine());
-        sbuff.append("<br>");
-      }
-      version = sbuff.toString();
-    } catch (IOException ioe) {
-      ioe.printStackTrace();
-      version = "version unknown";
-    }
-
-    return version;
+    return BuildInfo.getToolsUIBuildInfo().getVersion();
   }
 }
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1998-2019 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata
+ * Copyright (c) 1998-2025 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata
  * See LICENSE for license information.
  */
 

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 public class ToolsUI extends JPanel {
   private static final org.slf4j.Logger log = org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(MethodHandles.lookup().lookupClass());
 
-  private static final String DIALOG_VERSION = "5.0";
+  private static final String DIALOG_VERSION = BuildInfo.getToolsUIBuildInfo().getVersion();
 
   public static final String WORLD_DETAIL_MAP = "/resources/ui/maps/Countries.shp";
   public static final String US_MAP = "/resources/ui/maps/us_state.shp";
@@ -1524,11 +1524,14 @@ public void setMessage(SocketMessage.Event event) {
     }
 
     if (!configRead) {
+      // if System.getProperty("user.home") is set, look under user_home/.unidata for nj22Config.xml,
+      // otherwise look under the relative directory .unidata
       String filename = XMLStore.makeStandardFilename(".unidata", "nj22Config.xml");
       File f = new File(filename);
       if (f.exists()) {
         try (FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(filename)) {
           StringBuilder errlog = new StringBuilder();
+          RuntimeConfigParser.read(fis, errlog);
           System.out.println(errlog);
         } catch (IOException ioe) {
           log.warn("Error reading {} = {}", filename, ioe.getMessage());
@@ -1600,7 +1603,7 @@ public void setMessage(SocketMessage.Event event) {
       } catch (HTTPException e) {
         log.error("Failed to set global credentials");
       }
-      HTTPSession.setGlobalUserAgent("ToolsUI v5.0");
+      HTTPSession.setGlobalUserAgent(String.format("ToolsUI v%s", BuildInfo.getToolsUIBuildInfo().getVersion()));
 
       java.net.Authenticator.setDefault(provider);
     });