GetPlatform

Availability

Flash Lite 1.1.

Description

Sets a parameter that identifies the current platform, which broadly describes the class of device. For devices with open operating systems, this identifier is typically the name and version of the operating system.

Command	Parameters	Value returned
`"GetPlatform"`	`platform` String to receive the identifier of the platform. It can be either the name of a variable or a string value that contains the name of a variable.	-1: Not supported. 0: Supported.

Command

Parameters

Value returned

"GetPlatform"

platform String to receive the identifier of the platform. It can be either the name of a variable or a string value that contains the name of a variable.

-1: Not supported.

0: Supported.

Example

The following code example assigns the platform identifier to the statusplatform variable, and then updates a text field with the generic platform name.

These are some sample results for myPlatform and the classes of device they signify:

506i A 506i phone.

FOMA1 A FOMA1 phone.

Symbian6.1_s60.1 A Symbian 6.1, Series 60 version 1 phone.

Symbian7.0 A Symbian 7.0 phone

statusplatform = fscommand2("GetPlatform", "platform");
switch(platform){
    case "506i":
        /:myText += "platform: 506i" add newline;
        break;
    case "FOMA1":
        /:myText += "platform: FOMA1" add newline;
        break;
    case "Symbian6.1-Series60v1":
        /:myText += "platform: Symbian6.1, Series 60 version 1 phone" add newline;
        break;
    case "Symbian7.0":
        /:myText += "platform: Symbian 7.0" add newline;
        break;
}

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