how do make you flash movie detect what os your using?

[phaty]

thats the question, seen it done before not sure how i can make my flash movie detect what os and even browser
i know how to detect what version of flash plugin they have (flashkit have a tutorial in the action script section i think)

any answers any one this is bugging me a bit

[phaty]

no answers yet, please one out any body please help me!!!!

[DaveT]

using: getVersion() will return what os you are on

[phaty]

thanks for replying
do i out that peice of codde into a text field?

[DaveT]

stick it into a var and then you can do what you want with it.

eg.
os = getVersion().slice(0,3);
trace(os);

[bugger]

What about what version of OS you have.... MAC OSX or MAC 9?