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# ScriptForge.Platform service

The Platform service provides a collection of properties about the current execution environment and context, such as:

- The hardware platform (architecture, CPU count, machine type, etc)

- Operating system information (OS type, release, version, etc)

- The LibreOfficeDev version

- The current user name

All properties of the Platform service are read-only.

## Service invocation

Before using the Platform service the ScriptForge library needs to be loaded or imported:

• Basic macros require to load ScriptForge library using the following statement:
GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.loadLibrary("ScriptForge")
• Python scripts require an import from scriptforge module:
from scriptforge import CreateScriptService

The examples below in Basic and Python instantiate the Platform service and access the Architecture property.

##### In Basic

          GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.LoadLibrary("ScriptForge")
          Dim platform As Variant
          platform = CreateScriptService("Platform")
          MsgBox platform.Architecture

##### In Python

          from scriptforge import CreateScriptService
          svc = CreateScriptService("Platform")
          bas = CreateScriptService("Basic")
          bas.MsgBox(svc.Architecture)

## Properties

Name | Readonly | Type | Description
--- | --- | --- | ---
Architecture | Yes | String | The hardware bit architecture. Example: '32bit' or '64bit'
ComputerName | Yes | String | The computer's network name.
CPUCount | Yes | Integer | The number of central processing units.
CurrentUser | Yes | String | The name of the currently logged user.
Extensions | Yes | String array | Returns a zero-based array of strings containing the internal IDs of all installed extensions.
FilterNames | Yes | String array | Returns a zero-based unsorted array of strings containing the available document import and export filter names.
Fonts | Yes | String array | Returns a zero-based array of strings containing the names of all available fonts.
FormatLocale | Yes | String | Returns the locale used for numbers and dates as a string in the format "la-CO" (language-COUNTRY).
Locale | Yes | String | Returns the locale of the operating system as a string in the format "la-CO" (language-COUNTRY). This is equivalent to the SystemLocale property.
Machine | Yes | String | The machine type. Examples are: 'i386' or 'x86_64'.
OfficeLocale | Yes | String | Returns the locale of the user interface as a string in the format "la-CO" (language-COUNTRY).
OfficeVersion | Yes | String | The actual LibreOfficeDev version expressed as ' LibreOfficeDev w.x.y.z (The Document Foundation)'. Example: 'LibreOffice 7.4.1.2 (The Document Foundation, Debian and Ubuntu)'
OSName | Yes | String | The operating system type. Example: 'Darwin, Linux' or 'Windows'.
OSPlatform | Yes | String | A single string identifying the underlying platform with as much useful and human-readable information as possible. Example: 'Linux-5.8.0-44-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.32'
OSRelease | Yes | String | The operating system's release. Example: '5.8.0-44-generic'
OSVersion | Yes | String | The operating system's build or version. Example: '#50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 9 06:29:41 UTC 2021'
Printers | Yes | String array | The list of available printers as a zero-based array. The default printer is put in the first position of the list (index = 0).
Processor | Yes | String | The real processor name. Example: 'amdk6'. This property may return the same value as the Machine property.
PythonVersion | Yes | String | Returns the version of the Python interpreter being used as a string in the format "Python major.minor.patchlevel" (ex: "Python 3.9.7").
SystemLocale | Yes | String | Returns the locale of the operating system as a string in the format "la-CO" (language-COUNTRY). This is equivalent to the Locale property.
UntitledPrefix | Yes | String | Returns the prefix used to name new documents ("Untitled " in english).
UserData | Yes | Dictionary | Returns a ScriptForge.Dictionary instance containing key-value pairs in relation with Tools - Options - User Data dialog.

Extensive operating system name identification is available from INFO("system") Calc formula.

### Example:

##### In Basic

The following examples in Basic and Python illustrate how to use the Fonts property to write the names of all available fonts to the current Calc sheet starting at cell "A1":

        Dim oDoc as Object
        Dim allFonts as Object
        Dim svcPlatform as Object
        Set oDoc = CreateScriptService("Calc")
        Set svcPlatform = CreateScriptService("Platform")
        allFonts = svcPlatform.Fonts
        oDoc.setArray("~.A1", allFonts)

The example below demonstrates how to create a Calc table with all the values stored in the UserData property, which is a Dictionary service instance:

        Dim svcPlatform as Object, oUserData as Object, oDoc as Object
        Dim arrUserData As Object, currCell As String
        Set svcPlatform = CreateScriptService("Platform")
        oUserData = svcPlatform.UserData
        arrUserData = oUserData.ConvertToArray()
        Set oDoc = CreateScriptService("Calc", ThisComponent)
        oDoc.SetArray("~.A1", Array(Array("Key", "Value")))
        oDoc.SetArray("~.A2", arrUserData)

##### In Python

The examples above can be written in Python as follows:

        from scriptforge import CreateScriptService
        bas = CreateScriptService("Basic")
        doc = CreateScriptService("Calc", bas.ThisComponent)
        svc_platform = CreateScriptService("Platform")
        all_fonts = svc_platform.Fonts
        doc.setArray("~.A1", all_fonts)

        from scriptforge import CreateScriptService
        bas = CreateScriptService("Basic")
        doc = CreateScriptService("Calc", bas.ThisComponent)
        svc_platform = CreateScriptService("Platform")
        user_data = svc_platform.UserData
        arr_user_data = [[key, user_data[key]] for key in user_data]
        doc.SetArray("~.A1", (("Key", "Value"),))
        doc.SetArray("~.A2", arr_user_data)

All ScriptForge Basic routines or identifiers that are prefixed with an underscore character "_" are reserved for internal use. They are not meant be used in Basic macros or Python scripts.

Related Topics

Identifying the operating system

Platform information with INFO("system") Calc formula

GetGuiType Function

The Tools Library