I mainly need my IDE script to tell whether it’s running in the 2013r3.3 IDE or in a later IDE, and it’s needed for a pre-build stage script.
Does someone know a way?
I’ve tried using XojoVersion directly in the script code, which just gives a compile error (meaning the IDE Script environment does not declare it). I’ve also tried getting it using ConstantValue(“XojoVersion”), but that fails, too (gives empty string).
It cant
I am hoping that someone knows a trick, e.g. something where the newer IDEs behave differently. I need to tell the 2013r3 apart from the 2016 IDE. Maybe something has changed about IDE scripting in the mean time that allows me to detect this difference.
Maybe call a function that’s not available in the older IDE, in a way that I can catch it and run a different code path.
Well, here’s a way that at least works on OS X - it uses AppleScript to ask for the app version of the frontmost app, which is usually the IDE (unless someone clicks it into the background during the build process, I guess):
[code] dim cmd, result as string
cmd = “osascript -e '”+EndOfLine+_
“tell application ““System Events”””+EndOfLine+_
“set p to path of (application file of first process whose frontmost is true)”+EndOfLine+_
“end tell”+EndOfLine+_
“return version of application p”+_
“’”
result = DoShellCommand (cmd)
print result[/code]
This returns “16.1.1.33502” for the 2016r1.1 IDE and “2013.3.3.0” for the 2013r3.3 IDE.
Don’t know if this might help, but you can get the internal version of the Xojo application on OS X like that from an IDE Script:
Dim IDEPath As String = DoShellCommand("echo ${IDE_PATH}")
Dim command As String = "mdls -name kMDItemVersion """ + IDEPath.Replace(EndOfLine, "") + "/Xojo.app"""
Dim version As String = DoShellCommand(command))
… will return something like that:
IDE Script itself has no built in way to tell
but the external measures you’ve mentioned can
they’re just not x-plat