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Regional date format & fonts
« Thread started on: Aug 21st, 2012, 11:59am » |
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In Europe dates are in order: dd/mm/yy
In USA dates are mm/dd/yy. And in some EU countries there are two dots or small circle above a, o A O.
In some cases date order makes an important role since date like 02/12/2012 can be interpreted as 2nd of Dec 2012 (EU) or 12th of Feb 2012 (USA).
What is the method to clarify -as part of the bbc4w codes -the 'region' setting of windows computers, into which one wants to install bbc4w programs.
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There are code written by Richard that tells to you for example locations of op sys "special files" or there is a code to find out name of the Win op sys that user employs.
I cannot find from helps advice, how to feed into a real time BBC4W program flow the relevant format of user's Windows region &date, ie the computer into into which I need to install an application , that is dependent on the order of the users' regional date format.
Also similar problem might be investications on desimal separator a user has -for example "," or "." .
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Re: Regional date format & fonts
« Reply #1 on: Aug 22nd, 2012, 05:47am » |
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Code referenced in above story So, I would like also to find the date format of the PC . If you have that wisedom please modify my program down here
MODE 12
CLS
PRINT " PC type and special Microsoft folders"
PROCgetversion2
PRINT " OpSys="; D$; " (MS-id=";A%;B%;C%;")"
PRINT " Windows Directory =";FNwindowsdirectory
PRINT " System Directory=";FNsystemdirectory
PRINT " FolderId"
REM my XP sp3 22.08.12
id%=-1
REPEAT
id%=id%+1
spex$=FNspecialfolder(id%)
IF LENspex$ > 2 PRINT id%,TAB(14); spex$
UNTIL id% = 99
REM missing: a function to search date format (dd/mm/yy or mm/dd/yy) that is active now
END
REM 3 routines based on RR public samples
DEF FNwindowsdirectory
LOCAL T%
DIM T% LOCAL 260
SYS "GetWindowsDirectory", T%, 260
= $$T% + "\"
DEF FNsystemdirectory
LOCAL T%
DIM T% LOCAL 260
SYS "GetSystemDirectory", T%, 260
= $$T% + "\"
DEF PROCgetversion2
LOCAL osvi{}
DIM osvi{Size%, \ Size of structure
\ Major%, \ Major version number
\ Minor%, \ Minor Version number
\ Build%, \ Build number
\ Platform%, \ Platform ID
\ SP&(127) \ Service Pack string
\ }
osvi.Size% = 148
SYS "GetVersionEx", osvi{}
A% = osvi.Major%
B% = osvi.Minor%
C% = osvi.Platform%
D$="Unknown OpSystem"
IF A%=4 AND B%=0 AND C%=1 THEN D$="Windows 95"
IF A%=4 AND B%=10 AND C%=1 THEN D$= "Windows 98"
IF A%=4 AND B%=90 AND C%=1 THEN D$= "Windows Me"
IF A%=4 AND C%=2 THEN D$="Windows NT4"
IF A%=5 AND B%=1 AND C%=2 THEN D$="Windows XP"
IF A%=5 AND B%=0 AND C%=2 THEN D$="Windows 2000"
IF A%=6 AND B%=1 AND C%=2 THEN D$= "Windows 7"
IF A%=6 AND B%=0 AND C%=2 THEN D$= "Windows Vista"
ENDPROC
DEF FNspecialfolder(id%)
LOCAL ppidl%, folder%, malloc%
DIM folder% LOCAL 255
SYS "SHGetSpecialFolderLocation", @hwnd%, id%, ^ppidl%
SYS "SHGetPathFromIDList", ppidl%, folder%
SYS "SHGetMalloc", ^malloc%
SYS !(!malloc%+20), malloc%, ppidl%
= $$folder% + "\"
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Re: Regional date format & fonts
« Reply #2 on: Aug 22nd, 2012, 08:35am » |
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on Aug 21st, 2012, 11:59am, dynamic35 wrote:| What is the method to clarify -as part of the bbc4w codes -the 'region' setting of windows computers, into which one wants to install bbc4w programs. |
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Use the GetLocaleInfo API:
Code: _LOCALE_SDECIMAL = &E
_LOCALE_SLONGDATE = 32
_LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT = &400
DIM DateFormat{text&(80)}
SYS "GetLocaleInfo", _LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, _LOCALE_SLONGDATE, \
\ DateFormat{}, DIM(DateFormat{})
PRINT "The user's date format is " DateFormat.text&()
DIM DecimalSep{text&(4)}
SYS "GetLocaleInfo", _LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, _LOCALE_SDECIMAL, \
\ DecimalSep{}, DIM(DecimalSep{})
PRINT "The user's decimal separator is " DecimalSep.text&()
GetLocaleInfo will return all sorts of other region-dependent settings. Check MSDN for details.
Quote:| I cannot find from helps advice, how to feed into a real time BBC4W program flow the relevant format of user's Windows region &date |
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The GetDateFormat API by default formats the date according to the user's preferences:
Code: DATE_LONGDATE = 2
_LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT = &400
DIM Date{text&(80)}
SYS "GetDateFormat", _LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, DATE_LONGDATE, 0, 0, \
\ Date{}, DIM(Date{})
PRINT Date.text&()
You can alternatively specify DATE_SHORTDATE.
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Re: Regional date format & fonts
« Reply #3 on: Aug 22nd, 2012, 10:41am » |
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Excellent. Thank you very much , again
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