Test OS 32 or 64 bit

[Roberto Origgi]

Hi,
How I can test if Operative System is 32 or 64 bit with PowerBuilder 10.5 ?

Thank in advance

[Jerry Siegel [TeamSybase]]

IFAIK PB runs as a 32-bit application.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384249%28VS.85%29.aspx

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"Roberto Origgi" <roberto...@clsoft.it> wrote in message
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[Roland Smith [TeamSybase]]

This might help.

http://www.topwizprogramming.com/freecode_osversion.html

"Roberto Origgi" <roberto...@clsoft.it> wrote in message
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[Shawn]

Roland,

When I run your application on Vista 64bit I get no OS name
or edition. As I stepped through your code, it works all
the way to line 92 of function of_getosversion of
n_osversion where it's checking the lstr_ovi.dwMinorVersion.
When I run, lstr_ovi.dw_MinorVersion is 0 so it goes into
the first case statement where it next applies a case
statement to check the value of lstr_ovi.wProductType. When
I run, the value of the variable is 7681 but it's trying to
match it to two values in the case statement
(VER_NT_WORKSTATION which has a value of 1 and VER_NT_SERVER
which has a value of 3) neither of which equal 7681.
Consequently it falls through without assigning an OSVersion
or OSEdition.

Can you help clarify?

Shawn

[Scott Morris]

"Roberto Origgi" <roberto...@clsoft.it> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> How I can test if Operative System is 32 or 64 bit with PowerBuilder 10.5
> ?

Try:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724340(VS.85).aspx

But this says "To determine whether a Win32-based application is running
under WOW64, call the IsWow64Process function."

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684139(VS.85).aspx

[Roland Smith [TeamSybase]]

Shawn,

What version of PB are you using?

The structure OSVERSIONINFOEX has this definition:

OSVERSIONINFOEX {
DWORD dwOSVersionInfoSize;
DWORD dwMajorVersion;
DWORD dwMinorVersion;
DWORD dwBuildNumber;
DWORD dwPlatformId;
TCHAR szCSDVersion[128];
WORD wServicePackMajor;
WORD wServicePackMinor;
WORD wSuiteMask;
BYTE wProductType;
BYTE wReserved;
}

The BYTE datatype in PowerBuilder wasn't introduced until 10.5. So for my
example I used unsignedinteger instead. I do not have access to a Vista
machine so as you have found, not all combinations work. If you have 10.5 or
later, change the structure so that wproducttype is Byte and then add a Byte
member called wreserved. Then in the Instance Variables change ProductType
to Byte.

If you are still getting a value other than 1 or 3, just add that value to
the case statement so that it takes the Vista path.

Here is a link to where I got the background info to code the example:
http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/misc/misc/system/print.php/c8973

[Shawn]

Roland,

Thanks for the info. To answer your question, I'm running
Powerbuilder 11.5 on a Vista 64 machine (cutting edge, huh?
lol). I'll try out your suggestions and get this working
with the proper check values.

Thanks again for the contribution.

Regards,
Shawn

[Wheeley]

On 11 Oct 2009 05:52:59 -0700, Shawn wrote:

Look here for a PB version;

http://www.topwizprogramming.com/

Though both of these examples only get the OS type not necessairly if
it is a 32 or 64 bit version.

Wheeley

[Wheeley]

On 16 Oct 2009 23:27:06 -0700, Wheeley <whe...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

Foud this api call to test if a 64-bit os is running a 32-bit app.

IsWow64Process

Wheeley

[Jerry Siegel [TeamSybase]]

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/153621/are-you-ready-for-128-bit-windows/
Planned release 2012. Isn't that when the Mayan calendar says the world will
end?

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