How can a plugin know the host version ?

[G_Soucy]

Hello,

My format plugin needs to know which host version is calling it (CS2, CS3, ...) to adapt automatically (ex: CS2 does not support creating images with multi-layers). How can I get the host version from the plugin ?

Up to now, I have been using  HostSupports32BitCoordinates to distinguish between before and after CS1 but I need more precision (actually, I need to distinguish hosts between before and after CS3).

Thank you!

Gilbert

[ilvar]

Use Getter plugin to get the code that retreives this (or any similar type of ) information.

Briefly:

PutProperty(classProperty,keyHostVersion)

PutEnumerated(classApplication,typeOrdinal,enumTarget);

PSActionControl->Get()

and then look for keyHostVersion and inside it for keyVersionMajor and keyVersionMinor

[G_Soucy]

Thank you for the pointer. I had some compilation problems trying to use the solution you propose with my format plugin but I got what I wanted with:

// Get the Property Suite from the parameter block

PropertyProcs *propSuite = formatParamBlock->propertyProcs;

if (propSuite){

     int32 version=0;

     propSuite->getPropertyProc(

'8BIM', propVersion, 0, (intptr_t *)&version, nil);

     gPhotoshopVerMaj = version >> 16;

     gPhotoshopVerMin = version && 0x0000ffff;

}

Gilbert

[ilvar]

Well, it was pseudo-code to being with