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Re: User friendly machine name (gestaltUserVisibleMachineName?)

On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 12:43 PM, Eric Schlegel wrote:

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.

If you use gestaltUserVisibleMachineName, though, Gestalt.h says that the selector returns a StringPtr that points to the machine name.

steve
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