Is there a way to get plugin version via Javascript?

[Dan Tate]

Hi,

I'm trying to find a way to make it easier for our customers to provide us bug report information, so I thought that a small script that could provide OS, InDesign and our own plugin extension versions would be a good idea.

I can get the version strings for the OS and ID, but is there a simple way (without having to provide a C++ interface) to get the version string of a plugin using javascript?  Is there a collection of extensions somewhere that I can look at?

Obviously customers could go through the help menu->About Plugins, but I am trying to make this as simple as possible!

Thanks,

Daniel Tate.

[DaveSofTypefi]

Only if the plug-in provides the information by extending the object model with a property -- at least, I believe that's the case. I've not seen many that do, but then, I've not looked.

Dave

[Vamitul]

mostly what Dave said.

however you can fake it a bit.. when creating a package you have the option of generating a report that includes a list of external plugins. that might help. realy simple if your plugin files use a name_version.PLN nameing scheme. if not, i guess you can open the pln file in javascript and look for the version string in it.

[Dan Tate]

Ah, ok, thanks.  I'm looking at expanding our interface to include a get version method, I think that's probably the best way to go.