I found an example finally of retrieving the version from one of the system dlls (thank you stack overflow). I have access to the fully version information, which is 4 digits rather than the existing 2. I'd like to expand the return value with this information.
Rick On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 11:09 AM Rick McGuire <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I was afraid of that. They deprecate GetVersionEx(), then don't > provide a replacement gives the same information and their recommended > replacement needs to be updated every new release. I'm thinking we're just > going to need to live with that warning message in that particular case. > I'm a little worried that they will no longer update GetVersionEx()...in > fact, I suspect they already have stopped, since it is still returning > 10.00 for Windows 10. The docs I found did recommend using some APIs to > query the version of a Windows system dll, but I couldn't find any examples > showing how to use them. > > I was able to eliminate the other three occurrences. Do you agree I should > restore that bit? Although I want to have it just say "Windows" now rather > than "WindowsNT" > > Rick > > On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 11:01 AM Erich Steinböck < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> [r11568] changed Rexxutil to use IsWindows10OrGreater(), which doesn't >> seem to be defined in Visual Studio 2015 (all other used IsWindowsXXX() >> functions are defined). It gives error "Undefined identifier" for me. >> >> This seems to push the minimum VS requirement to 2017. >> Do we want that? >> >> Also I believe 5.0 can still run on XP, which the new SysWinVer code >> doesn't cover. >> _______________________________________________ >> Oorexx-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel >> >
_______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
