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Issue 5.6

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Asking for the correct Windows version from REALbasic Code using Declares.

Issue: 5.6 (September/October 2007)
Author: Christian Schmitz
Article Description: No description available.
Article Length (in bytes): 7,916
Starting Page Number: 44
Article Number: 5617
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All Windows versions should be equal to you as the programmer, but some are different so if a customer has a problem you might ask him what Operation System he is using. For Mac OS see the listing for a nice version function in Listing #1.

Collection version data for Windows

For Windows it's a little bit more complicated. First we will make a declare statement to the function GetVersionEx which returns the version information record. Than we have to interpret it, but let's start with the declare. The C code looks like that:

BOOL GetVersionExA(LPOSVERSIONINFO lpVersionInfo);

As you can see it's just a boolean function with a pointer (lp is short for a long pointer) pointing to a memoryblock. So we get this declare:

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