Re: User friendly machine name (gestaltUserVisibleMachineName?) [SOLVED]
Re: User friendly machine name (gestaltUserVisibleMachineName?) [SOLVED]
- Subject: Re: User friendly machine name (gestaltUserVisibleMachineName?) [SOLVED]
- From: Vince DeMarco <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:01:51 -0700
It would be eaiser to just use the SystemConfiguration. and not have to
deal with pascal strings etc..
SCDynamicStoreCopyLocalHostName()
vince
On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Rolf wrote:
Hi all,
I have found the solution. Thanks for pointing me in the right
direction. Here is a class method that returns the Machine Name:
+(NSString * )machineName {
SInt32 gestaltReturnValue;
// Fetch machine name as pointer to PStr255 (Pascal String:
Byte0=length, Byte1..255=Characters)
if (!Gestalt(gestaltUserVisibleMachineName, &gestaltReturnValue)) {
return [NSString stringWithCString: (char *)gestaltReturnValue
+ 1];
} else {
return @"Unknown";
}
}
/Rolf
30.05.2003 22:24:15, skrev Steve Christensen <email@hidden>:
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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