True. I don't know what the original poster needed it for.
Say, it I want to use a Handera or Sony Hi-Res, I prefer not to check the manufacturer, but rather the presense of a particular extension or library, simply because some other manufacturer can produce a Handera or Sony-compatible unit in the furture. M. -----Original Message----- From: David Fedor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2001 12:41 PM To: Palm Developer Forum Subject: RE: Device model and manufacturer >Does anybody know how to find the model and manufacturer of a Palm OS >device at run time? Hi - Just a friendly reminder that this is almost always the wrong question to be asking. You might be the exception to the rule, but just in case... Most people when they ask this question really mean something much more specific like "how much memory is there" or "does it support 16 bit color" or "what bundled software" or something. There are usually better ways to find out that info. And there's no way to get a user-visible string like "m505" from the ROM... for example the m100 and m105 devices have exactly the same rom and hardware AFAIK, just different amounts of memory. So if there's a more direct thing that you can look at, that'd be highly recommended instead of making an inference from the sysFtrNumOEMDeviceID. (Particularly because sometimes multiple devices share the same sysFtrNumOEMDeviceID.) -David Fedor Palm, Inc. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/ -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
