FileVerInfo returns blank string

Keywords:  "" NULL Blank string FileVerInfo  

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Question:

When using the function FileVerInfo, sometimes it returns a blank string (""). I am trying the get "FileVersion" info... I am running an older version of WinBatch Any thoughts?

Answer:

1. The problem is that FileVerInfo by default only checks for English and "neutral" keys by default. So the problem is that the proper language key is not being used.

   ;Language-key     Language       Character Set
   ;   ------------     --------       -------------
   ;      040904E4       U.S. English   Windows Multilingual
   ;      040904B0       U.S. English   Unicode
   ;      000004E4       Neutral        Windows Multilingual
   ;      04090000       U.S. English   Neutral
   ;      00000000       Neutral        Neutral
   
   ;Additional foreign language keys
   ;     040C04E4	     French	     Windows Multilingual
   ;     0C0C04E4	     French-Canadian Windows Multilingual
   

2. DLL 2.8hbt First showing up in WB 99H:
   In FileVerInfo, if you specify blank strings for both "language-key" and "resource-string", it will now return a tab-delimited list of language keys for which version information is available in the specified file.

3. You might try the following code to test for some more language keys...

   debug(1)
   FileN= "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ODBC16GT.DLL"
   FVersion  = FileVerInfo(FileN, "", "FileVersion")
   if FVersion==""
      FVersion  = FileVerInfo(FileN, "000004E4", "FileVersion")
      if FVersion==""
         FVersion  = FileVerInfo(FileN, "04090000", "FileVersion")
         if FVersion==""
   	 FVersion  = FileVerInfo(FileN, "00000000", "FileVersion")
            if FVersion==""
   	    FVersion  = FileVerInfo(FileN, "00000000", "FileVersion")
   	    if FVersion==""
   	       message("Sorry","Cannot access File Version info")
   	    endif
            endif      
         endif
      endif
   endif
   message("Fileversion is",FVersion)
    
   

4. You can update to version 98B or newer. In version 98B or newer the function FileVerInfo has been updated to check many types of language keys.

5. Here are some other possible combinations:

   Specify one each of the following "Language Codes" and "Character Set":

   Example:

   Language code for French Canadian               = 0C0C
   Character Set is probably Windows, Multilingual  =04E4
   
   Format:
   [Language code][Character Set]
   [0C0C]		[04E4]
   
   The language key for French-Canadian is  0C0C04E4
   

   Language codes

   	0401 Arabic 
   	0402 Bulgarian
   	0403 Catalan 
   	0404 Traditional Chinese
   	0405 Czech
   	0406 Danish 
   	0407 German
   	0408 Greek
   	0409 U.S. English 
   	040A Castilian Spanish
   	040B Finnish
   	040C French
   	040D Hebrew
   	040E Hungarian
   	040F Icelandic
   	0410 Italian
   	0411 Japanese
   	0412 Korean 
   	0413 Dutch
   	0414 Norwegian - Bokml 
   	0810 Swiss Italian
   	0813 Belgian Dutch (Cyrillic)
   	0814 Norwegian - Nynorsk                  
   	0415 Polish                      
   	0416 Brazilian Portuguese       
   	0417 Rhaeto-Romanic             
   	0418 Romanian                   
   	0419 Russian                    
   	041A Croato-Serbian (Latin)     
   	041B Slovak                     
   	041C Albanian                   
   	041D Swedish                    
   	041E Thai                       
   	041F Turkish                    
   	0420 Urdu                       
   	0421 Bahasa                     
   	0804 Simplified Chinese         
   	0807 Swiss German               
   	0809 U.K. English               
   	080A Mexican Spanish            
   	080C Belgian French             
   	0C0C Canadian French            
   	100C Swiss French               
   	0816 Portuguese                 
   	081A Serbo-Croatian (Cyrillic) 
   

   Character Set

   	0000  7-bit ASCII
   	03A4  Windows, Japan (Shift - JIS X-0208)
   	03B5  Windows, Korea (Shift - KSC 5601)
   	03B6  Windows, Taiwan (GB5)
   	04B0  Unicode
   	04E2  Windows, Latin-2 (Eastern European)
   	04E3  Windows, Cyrillic
   	04E4  Windows, Multilingual
   	04E5  Windows, Greek
   	04E6  Windows, Turkish
   	04E7  Windows, Hebrew
   	04E8  Windows, Arabic 
   

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Question:

Where are the winbatch language codes? Specifically, I need the English British codes. Thanks.

Answer:

Eeep. Wot?

Is this in reference to FileVersionInfo? Or WIL Language strings (all English is considered either "US English" or "ValSpeak" (you don't want to know) or ???

Question:

Thank you for the quick response. Yes, this is in reference to the FileVersionInfo. When using the command, values are returned as "0". The language appears to be returning as English-British. Do we perhaps need to use the "ValSpeak?"

Cheers.

Answer:

Try language codes of:

	080904E4
	080904b0
	08090000

And see if your luck improves.

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Article ID:   W13078

Filename:   FileVerinfo and Language Keys.txt