How to tell the engine version of a Windows standalone?

[Ben Rubinstein]

Blimey Mike, that works!  Thank you.

Ben

On 05/09/2016 16:30, Mike Bonner wrote:
> Correction, change it to:    get matchtext(url ("binfile:" &
> "path/to/standalone.exe"),tstring,tMatch)
> I accidentally dropped a paren.
>
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>>