Xojo add’s a manifest to the build EXE.
Normally you can place a separate manifest file next to the exe, like myapp.exe.manifest
I’ve tested if I can have this separate file overwriting the settings stored within myapp.exe
, which seems not to work while it does work on some other third party executables.
Can anybody tell me more about how this should work related to Xojo executables ?
what do you use the manifest file for??
Taken from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235342.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 point 4 in the Note section.
Ah, interesting…
One issue with 32Bit Xojo builds is that we can’t read the OS Version properly with GetVersionEx.
Windows 10 reports it is 8 because of:
Our current workaround is to query “RtlGetVersion” in “ntdll.dll”
But back to the Manifest - so for a 32Bit build we could simply add an additional file such as shown here in Targeting your application for Windows ? And then the GetVersionEx would return what’s expected…?
@ - so no chance to use a separate manifest-file with xojo 32-bit exe .
Probably it can easy be done with a MBS Plugin