How to tell the engine version of a Windows standalone?

[Mike Bonner]

Try this.. (should work in a message box)

 put ".*([0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]).*" into tstring
   get matchtext(url ("binfile:" & "path/to/standalone.exe",tstring,tMatch)
   put tMatch

Not sure it'll work every time, but it's worked on everything I've tried
from 4.6.1 to 8.0.1

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 4:09 AM, Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:

> On 04/09/2016 23:19, Colin Holgate wrote:
>
>> Open with a hex editor, and search for Win32€€€. One of the two matches
>> has the LiveCode version following it.
>>
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> Thanks for this - looks like an excellent method but AFAICT this only
> works for more recent versions (i.e. works for LC8, doesn't work for LC6,
> I'm looking at something like LC3-LC5....!
>
> Anyone know a way that works with older versions?
>
> (Also thanks Andy and Phil; as well as adding the logo, I updated the
> logger to include the engine version as well as my build number - some of
> my other apps have done this for years, alas this one didn't...)
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Ben
>
>
>
>
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