An up date on my problem. I did some research on osVersion and found on
the macromedia website an ostest.dir file. I magically turned it into a
dcr file and it detected Windows ME on my Windows ME file instead of
Windows 98.
I copied the code into my project and then tried to run it on the
windows ME machine. It detected windows 98 (I knew this because of an
alert I had in the code).
I installed director on the windows ME machine to debug it. The
uncompiled dir file detects windows ME. So I compiled it on the windows
ME and blow me down it detects windows 98.
So the question is why? Is there anything you know that would cause
this?
Code below.
Desperately Liz
Code
************************************************************
global osList
on startMovie
osList=["Windows 98","Windows 2000","Windows NT","Windows ME","Windows
XP", "Windows 95"]
end
*************************************************************
global osList
on exitFrame me
--myOs is set to the actual property #osVersion,
--this is done by retrieving the information from the property
osVersion
myOs = getaProp(the environment, #osVersion)
--using a repeat loop and walking through the list osList, we compare
--the actual OS to one of the OS's in the list osList.
repeat with i = 1 to osList.count
myVar = osList[i]
--using the 'contains' operator to determine if there is a match.
--between the actual OS and our list (osList)
--if a match is found the play head is sent to the corresponding
marker.
if (myOs contains myVar) then
alert myOS -- testing purposes only
go to frame string(myVar)
exit
end if
end repeat
end
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 4:04 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: <lingo-l> baVersion( "os" )
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm officially confounded. I tried the code supplied by Luke it
detects
> winME. I put exactly the same code in my application and it detects
win98
> every time. I tried both baVersion("windows") and baVersion ("os")
with
> the same results. Have I entered the dark zone or is there something
that
> could be causing this?
>
> I would try (the environment).osVersion, but frankly I don't know how
to
> use it. I will have to look it up somewhere.
>
> My application is a CD that is time specific i.e. it gets replaced
every
> semester. However you are right I should be checking for other OS's.
>
> Thanks
> Liz
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:lingo-l-
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark A. Boyd
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 6:46 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: <lingo-l> baVersion( "os" )
> >
> > At 10:44 2003-06-23, Liz wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I'm using the code below, but on a win ME machine its detecting Win
98.
> > >Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong or why its doing that.
> >
> > Hmm. It returns "WinME" as expected on my ME machine. You might want
to
> > use
> > baVersion("Windows") as Luke suggested or even Lingo's (the
> > environment).osVersion.
> >
> > BTW, what will your program do if somebody runs it in a few years on
> > Windows ZZZ or Windows 2005 or whatever the current OS is at the
time?
> You
> > might want an otherwise clause in there.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark A. Boyd
> > Keep-On-Learnin' :)
> >
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