Ok thanks Guys,
I'm gonna go with Guillaume's solution for now.
Having said that - I'll tell you what I'm (very abitiously!) trying to do...
Following the numerous discussions about figuring out the identities of missing shaders/plugins when restoring an old job from an archive I thought it might make sense to see if it's possible to gather up ideally:
A: (Best solution) The names and versions of anything non-factory being used in a scene.
B: (Second best) The names and versions of anything non-factory installed on the machine or in any connected workgroups.
C: (Worst!) The names of anything non-factory installed on the machine or in any connected workgroups.
Then put this info into an annotation on the scene root as an on-save event.....
Like I said, this is very ambitious for me and I'm really just treating it as an exercise...
Stephen - the example in the wiki seems like it'd be the magic-bullet solution if all that was required was a handful of GUIDs - how do I find/query these?
I have so far got to a point where I can create an annotation that contains the names of all the Plugins installed (locally and in the workgroup) and it also outputs all the paths to any connected workgroups, but I have no idea how to find installed shaders/other SPDLs etc...
Way out of my depth? ....Don't answer that....... ;)
DAN
