How to tell the engine version of a Windows standalone?

[Mike Bonner]

Change it to this..    put ".*([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+).*" into tstring

for double digit version coverage

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>
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