GetVersionEx & Windows 10

[Alex Eastwood]

Hi MapInfo/MapBasic folks,

(using 32-bit MapInfo 15 and Windows 10)

Type OSVERSIONINFO
    dwOSVersionInfoSize As integer
    dwMajorVersion As integer
    dwMinorVersion As integer
    dwBuildNumber As integer
    dwPlatformId As integer
    szCSDVersion As String * 128
End Type

Declare Function GetVersionEx Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetVersionExA" (lpVersionInformation As OSVERSIONINFO) As integer

Used in a function:

Dim OSInfo as OSVersionInfo
Dim nRet As Integer

'Set the structure size
OSInfo.dwOSVersionInfoSize = 148    'Len(OSInfo)
'Get the Windows version
iRet = GetVersionEx(OSInfo)

I need to write a function like above, as the behaviour of the GetVersionEx function has changed and you can't tell for sure whether the OS is 8, 8.1 or 10.

I can't find much online on how to use Windows functions from MapBasic, so does anyone have any useful documentation or could anyone provide some assistance on how to use something like GetProductInfo? I read up about GetProductInfo here.

Any help would be much appreciated, even just some code examples so I can work the rest out for myself.

Thanks and kind regards,

Alex
GIS Developer
London, UK

[Nesh P.]

I have answered also at http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/232390/use-windows-function-getproductinfo-via-mapbasic

I have successfully implemented this solution.

Based on that I have created .NET assembly (*.dll).

After that all you need is to declare the method in your MapBasic application:

Declare Method OSName
    Class "nmiDotNet.MBOSinfo" 
    Lib "nmiDotNet.dll" () As String    

And you can call this method like simple function in MapBasic: OSName()

I customized output string to get names like this:

Windows 10 Professional Bit64 
Windows 8 Professional Bit64 
Windows 7 Enterprise Bit64 (Service Pack 1)
Windows 7 Enterprise Bit32 (Service Pack 1)
Windows XP Professional Bit32 (Service Pack 3)

[Alex Eastwood]

Hi Nesh,

yes thanks for your replies, cross-postng in GIS stack exchange as well since I didn't get any response here. I will have a look in to it when i get a chance!

Best,

Alex

[Nesh P.]

Don't forget to upvote and accept! ;)

I always upvote answers and posts of our dear friend Peter Horsbøll Møller, look how many points he has :)

[Alex Eastwood]

Ha, I have upvoted, was going to leave it until I've tried and implemented until I mark it as the accepted answer. Curious to see if there are any other responses/methods so feel like best to leave it without an accepted answer for the time being.

And yes, I'm waiting on our dear friend Peter to see what he has to say on the matter! (hint hint) To be fair he has always helped in the past and I imagine he also has a life outside of MapBasic that he is keen to get on with!

[Peter Horsbøll Møller]

Thanks guys.

This time I kept quiet for a good reason:

I had no answer at all J

 

Enjoy your weekends!

 

Peter Horsbøll Møller

Pitney Bowes

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