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GetSystemOS

Returns the OS Version in a more human read-able format.

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Colt Majkrzak - Show more from this author Christian James Inc http://www.christianjames.net

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Let ( os = Get(SystemPlatform); Case (os=-1; "Mac OSX PowerPC"; os=1; "Mac OSX Intel"; os=-2; "Windows"; "Unknown")) & " " & Let (ver = GetAsNumber(Left(Get(SystemVersion); 3)); Case (ver < 5 and Abs(Get(SystemPlatform)) = 2; "Prior to 2000"; ver = 5; "2000"; ver=5.1; "XP 32 Bit"; ver=5.2; "XP 64 Bit"; ver<10 and Abs(Get(SystemPlatform)) = 1; "Prior to OSX"; ver=10; "Cheetah"; ver=10.1;"Puma"; ver=10.2;"Jaguar"; ver=10.3; "Panther"; ver=10.4; "Tiger"; ver=10.5; "Leopard"; "Unknown")) Click to copy

This function should return the system platform (OSX PPC, OSX Intel, Windows) and then attempt to determine the O/S's name (XP, Tiger, etc). This will work already with Leopard, but I didn't have a Vista machine avaiable to add support for vista.

 

Comments

		Jens Rasmussen, København K Nov 10, 2009
Needs updating to Snow Leopard and Windows 7.

		HazMatt, MN Oct 5, 2012
I know Colt and I doubt he's working in FileMaker anymore (the above function will likely not get updated anytime soon). For an updated version of this function, use GetPlatformName(): http://www.briandunning.com/cf/1488

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