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movax Full Member Offline Posts: 172 Colorado	Detecting platform / OS? Oct 17th, 2006, 9:59pm   Can it be done?  I'd like the sketches to load alternate settings depending on Mac/PC. Thank you.
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JohnG Ex Member	Re: Detecting platform / OS? Reply #1 - Oct 17th, 2006, 10:33pm   I think so, try: Code: String os=System.getProperty("os.name"); Not entirely sure what the string you get is, but it should contain enough to differentiate Windows/Mac/linux/etc