Comparing local installed plug-in to 'master'version for update checks?

[Tim_W._James@adobeforums.com]

I'd like to add the ability for my plugin to (correctly) state "An update for this plugin is available" when one is.

We have a network master location that contains the latest revision.

How would I check if the user's copy is older than that version?

Using Acrobat SDK 7 and Visual Studio 2005.

Thanks,
Tim James

[PDL@adobeforums.com]

You'd have to develop your own method for doing this, there is no support for this functionality in the SDK. Updating is all on the developer, the SDK simply allows you to integrate with Acrobat.

Perhaps a const char* pluginVersion = "1.0" in your plug-in, and check that against some sort of update manifest on your server location, like most updaters do?

[Tim_W._James@adobeforums.com]

Is it possible for the plug-in to get it's own file info? like

stat( "\\PathtoPlugin\\PluginName.api", &stPluginInfo)

I don't know what to put in for "\\PathtoPlugin"

[malkyt@adobeforums.com]

This should return you the information that you need

AVExtensionAcquireInfo

it returns an AVExtensionInfo structure which contains

Major and minor versions of plug-in (if available)
and the path to the plugin

HTH

Malky

[Tim_W._James@adobeforums.com]

Looks like just what I want. Is there a shortcut to get the index required by AVExtensionAcquireInfo that references the current plug-in, or do I just enumerate them till finding the one I'm looking for.

[malkyt@adobeforums.com]

You have to enumerate them, you can use

AVExtensionGetNumPlugIns to tell you how many plug-in are actually loaded by Acrobat.

Malky