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Re: Gestalt
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Re: Gestalt


  • Subject: Re: Gestalt
  • From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:52:35 -0400
  • Organization: Rogue Research Inc.

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:45:38 -0600, koko said:

>When a user buys we ask for a registration on first run.  We like to get
>the OS name and version number from their system to include in out reg
>database.

I think that's a reasonable use of Gestalt().

>I just want to be sure that using Gestalt will not break in the future
>or is there a better way than that below to get the OS version.

It's not deprecated and has been working since 10.0 and before.  Should be safe.

>- (void) getSystemVersionMajor:(unsigned *)major minor:(unsigned *)minor
>bugFix:(unsigned *)bugFix {
>
>	OSErr err;
>    SInt32 systemVersion, versionMajor, versionMinor, versionBugFix;
>    if ((err = Gestalt(gestaltSystemVersion, &systemVersion)) != noErr)
>goto fail;

As I said, don't use gestaltSystemVersion.  Ever.

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada


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