Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!apple!dan
From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Determining Version?
Message-ID: <16018@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 24 Aug 88 01:09:34 GMT
References: <1394@spp2.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1394@spp2.UUCP> urban@spp2.UUCP (Mike Urban) writes:
>Version 1.2 of HyperCard seems to break the XCMD (CatchReturn)
>mechanism in a shareware stack that I distribute.  I have not yet seen
>the release notes (please, do not ask), but gather that 1.2 has a 
>new message for catching a Return typed in a text field.
>
>How can my stack determine whether it is running under Version 1.2 or
>later?  Or, equivalently, whether this new message is `meaningful' in
>the running version?

Try using the built-in HyperTalk function "the version", i.e.,

put the version

typed into the message box will display the version number.  You can
also test for things like "the long version".

Dan Allen
Apple Computer