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Subject: Re: User friendly machine name (gestaltUserVisibleMachineName?)
From: Eric Schlegel <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:43:42 -0700

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 12:16 PM, Rolf wrote:

I'm trying to write a method to determine the user friendly machine name (For example "PowerBook G4") in a Cocoa app.

Are you referring to the machine name that's set in the Sharing preference pane? If so, try CSCopyMachineName in CarbonCore/OSUtils.h.

As far as I know the Carbon Gestalt Manager has to be used, and the gestaltUserVisibleMachineName looks like the correct selector. I wrote the attached code but it doesn't work. Gestalt() succeeds and it returns a seemingly correct value. However GetIndString makes sMachineName into an empty string. Does anybody know why ?

I believe that 'STR#' resource is only supported on Mac OS 9, not X.

-eric
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