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FileVerInfo returns blank string 

Keywords:  "" NULL Blank string FileVerInfo

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

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. 
Article ID:   W13078

Filename:   FileVerinfo and Language Keys.txt
File Created: 1999:09:27:11:17:58
Last Updated: 1999:09:27:11:17:58