detecting windows version from TP7?

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3 total messages Started by sp33m Tue, 16 Jul 2002 03:19

#124

Author: sp33m
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 03:19

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is it possible to detect which version of windows is running when launching
an turbo pascal 7 application?

i wrote a turbo 7 application years ago that still sees a lot of use.
however, it croaks when it tries to initialize the sound -- apparently
windows NT/XP hates the SMIX sound library.  i'd like to make the
application still useable under NT/XP (it works fine under 31/9x/ME), i
figured a quick hack would be to disable the sound under these noncompatible
OS'.

on a similar note, does anyone know a sound library for good old TP7 that
works under NT/XP?

any assistance greatly appreciated.

Re: detecting windows version from TP7?

#125

Author: Ralf A. Quint
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 02:00

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On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 21:19:39 -0600, "sp33m" <poo@toilet.com> wrote:

>is it possible to detect which version of windows is running when launching
>an turbo pascal 7 application?
>
>i wrote a turbo 7 application years ago that still sees a lot of use.
>however, it croaks when it tries to initialize the sound -- apparently
>windows NT/XP hates the SMIX sound library.  i'd like to make the
>application still useable under NT/XP (it works fine under 31/9x/ME), i
>figured a quick hack would be to disable the sound under these noncompatible
>OS'.
Check for the "real" DOS version of 5.50, which will indicate that a
NT based Windows (NT 3.51, NT 4.0, W2K or XP) is running....

Ralf

Re: detecting windows version from TP7?

#123

Author: Frederic Pasteleurs
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:47

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Ralf A. Quint wrote:
> 
> Check for the "real" DOS version of 5.50, which will indicate that a
> NT based Windows (NT 3.51, NT 4.0, W2K or XP) is running....
> 

All flavours of Windows NT set up a lot of environment variables. I 
don't remember which variable to use, but if you type SET in a DOS 
window, you list all the env vars that are set in your system.

The variable "WINDIR=" is set by the 3.1/9x branch.

Pick a variable named "STEPPING=" or something like that (indicates the 
CPU stepping and is maintained by the kernel), read this variable using 
the GETENV() function and see if it contain something. If the string is 
not empty, you know that you run a NT flavour of Windows.

Fred.

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