Oh, now I see what you're really asking.
No, it returns a string, so you have to poke around a bit to get at the version info.
If you know the format it should be simple enough.
Director itself (MX), for instance, returns this:
theApp = baFindApp("dir")
put baFileVersion(theApp)
-- "9.0r383"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mendelsohn, Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 9:17 PM
Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Detecting Media Player Version with Lingo
> Bertil, cool method! Is that always going to give a number? Is there a
> chance it might return something like "A.43534.B"?
>
> - Michael M.
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> With Buddy you can do this:
>
> theApp = baFindApp("wmv")
> put baFileVersion(theApp)
>
> -- "9.00.00.2980"
>
>
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