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User friendly machine name (gestaltUserVisibleMachineName?)

Hi,

I'm trying to write a method to determine the user friendly machine name (For example "PowerBook G4") in a Cocoa app. 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 know about the uname method but it doesn't really return the true and full user friendly machine name.

NSString * result = @"Unknown";
SInt32 gestaltReturnValue;
if (!Gestalt(gestaltUserVisibleMachineName, &gestaltReturnValue))
{
Str255 sMachineName;
GetIndString(sMachineName,kMachineNameStrID,gestaltReturnValue);
result = [NSString stringWithCString:(StringPtr)&sMachineName];
}
return result;


/Rolf
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