How to detect the operating system
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| Or ' alternate uses for popular functions'. I stumbled across this and can't find a previous thread for it so.. How can you tell PC's and MAC's apart? (I know.. If it works - it's a MAC. If you enjoy programming on it - Its a Mac. If you go all misty eyed when talking about your programing environment - It's a mac.) However what do you do if you want to use the same source code for both OS's but with minor changes to each IE different font sizes? The code below though not intended for this purpose seems to work IE it differentiates between MAC OSX(Snow Leopard) and Windows (Vista, XP, W10). If HostName(HostIp ("", 0))="" then' you are on a MAC (OSX) ' do MAC specific things (set MAC font size) else' you are on a PC (win) ' do PC specific things (set PC font size) end if Hope this is helpful to somebody, have fun Cps (sorry for the duplication I hit the tab key..) |
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| Sorry but a much better way of doing this has been supplied by 'grable' (see duplicate thread). I strongly recommend ignoring my method and using a variation of this instead. ?MacOS Print "MAC" ?Win32 Print "WIN" ? This solution was posted by 'grable' many thanks Cps |
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