Determining a User's Name

Joe Lewis Wilkins pepetoo at Cox.Net
Sat Apr 7 07:10:54 EDT 2007


Boy! It took you guys long enough! (Hugh smile) Thanks a lot, I  
suspected some such, but my searches for username turned up nothing  
in the Dictionary.

Great List.

Joe Wilkins
On Apr 7, 2007, at 12:39 AM, Phil Davis wrote:

> Joe -
>
> Would environment variables work?
>
> - on Mac OS X there's $USER
>
> - on Win XP there's $USERNAME
>
>
> So you could do this:
>
>
> function currentUser
>   switch the platform
>     case "MacOS"
>       return $USER
>       break
>     case "Win32"
>       return $USERNAME
>       break
>   end switch
> end currentUser
>
>
> Or there might be a different variable you want to use. Check out  
> 'globalNames' in the docs.
>
> HTH -
> Phil Davis
>
>
>
> Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> Anyway to determine the computer user's name with RR; both Mac and  
>> Windows? I want to personalize a dialog query.
>> TIA,
>> Joe Wilkins
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