RE: how to get OS name ?
RE: how to get OS name ?
- Subject: RE: how to get OS name ?
- From: "ROSE,ROBERT W (HP-Corvallis,ex1)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:22:36 -0700
Isn't the Gestalt Manager still around?
Yup, sure is:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Carbon/oss/GestaltManager/gestalt
manager.html
There's a lot of great stuff you can get from the Gestalt Manager... One of
my first mac applications was a program that just probed every single value
from the Gestalt Manager. :-) Ahh... good times.
-robert
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-----Original Message-----
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From: Andreas Schempp [mailto:email@hidden]
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Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 11:33 PM
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To: Lloyd Dupont
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Cc: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: how to get OS name ?
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There's a good article about how to detect the users system at
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www.cocoadevcentral.com
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Direct link: http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000067.php
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I don't think you can get a string like "Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar" somewhere,
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but you can say "Darwin 6.5" - it's 10.2.5
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> I try sysctl(..) but all I get is "Darwin 6.5"
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> even uname return Darwin.
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> But I'm trying to get Jaguar, Panther, etc ...
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> or at least MacOSX 10.1, 10.2, ...
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> where can I get this ?
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