Platform detect?

[jtocher]

I am putting together a cross-platform CD with Flash MX and though perusing the posts have finally learned how to open .pdf files with Flash (woo hoo!) Now, my question is this how do I detect the users computer platform so I can either use the AppleScript solution or the Windows 'magic start.exe' solution. I really don't want to have to maintain two separate source files for this project - would prefer using if Windows, do this... else, do this.
It seems this platform detect would be a fairly common issue, but I've scoured the net and haven't found the magic key... help???

Thx in advance:confused:

[Jesse]

Manipulate this:
trace(getVersion());
It traces, WIN, MAC or UNIX.

[jtocher]

Just want to make sure I've got this in correctly (seems to be working, but need confirmation that this is the *best* way to implement).

At the beginning of the movie, I start with the platform detect as follows:

platform = getVersion().substring(0, 3);

This tells me if I'm running on "MAC" or "WIN" (Note that I'm not concerned with UNIX/LINUX since this is going out on CD-ROM)

Then, when I need to do something with this info (a button that launches a pdf file using either Applescript on Mac or MS's magic start.exe on Win):

on (release) {
if (platform=="MAC") {
fscommand("exec", "mypdf");
} else {
filename = "mypdf.pdf";
fscommand("exec", "start\t+filename");
fscommand("exec", "cmd\t/c\t"+filename);
}
}


Thanks for verification of implementation!

Janice

[Jesse]

Looks good to me.