Determining client type

[mstokes]

Does anybody know if it is possible to have a button show on a screen in the web client, but not in the eclipse client? ie. Is there a way to determine what client is being used to display a screen and so use DVD to prevent something being displayed?

[tommy]

I have not tried in SC6 but there is the function sysinfo that can get certain information about the client. (Don't recall the exact name of the function right now).

[glg]

In pre-6, sysinfo.get("mode") would return "client" for a full/fat client and "express" for an express client. Try displaying that value on a format and see if it comes up different for web vs. eclipse in 6.

And please report back, I'd like to know the answer

[mstokes]

sysinfo.get("display") returns "gui" for both clients and sysinfo.get("mode") returns "SOAP" for both clients.

[mstokes]

Found it.
sysinfo.get("Environment") returns "scguiwswt" for eclipse client and "scguiwweb" for web client

[Alex_the_frog]

You can also use:
curent.device(), which returns
ESS-Web for ess
Soap-Web for Full Web
Soap-Windows 2000 for Full Windows

or

$G.ess which returns true for ESS.