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Apr 22nd, 2004, 04:45 PM
#1
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Determining regional setting in VBA code
How do you do it?
In other words, at run-time, I want to determine the system regional settings and be able to test against the returned info.
Of course, using something like MonthName(1), it would give me either an English name for January, or the word in some other language. But there's got to be a better way...
Any suggestions?
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Apr 22nd, 2004, 05:26 PM
#2
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Well, I found this code:
VB Code:
Declare Function GetLocaleInfo Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetLocaleInfoA" (ByVal Locale As Long, ByVal LCType As Long, ByVal lpLCData As String, ByVal cchData As Long) As Long
Public Function ReadLocaleInfo(ByVal lInfo As Long) As String
Dim sBuffer As String
Dim rv As String
sBuffer = String$(256, 0)
rv = GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, lInfo, sBuffer, Len(sBuffer))
If rv > 0 Then
ReadLocaleInfo = Left$(sBuffer, rv - 1)
Else
'MsgBox "Not found"
ReadLocaleInfo = ""
End If
End Function
I've tried it with the following inputs:
VB Code:
MsgBox ("UserDefault: " & ReadLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT))
MsgBox ("SDecimal: " & ReadLocaleInfo(LOCALE_SDECIMAL))
MsgBox ("ILDate: " & ReadLocaleInfo(LOCALE_ILDATE))
MsgBox ("Country: " & ReadLocaleInfo(LOCALE_ICOUNTRY))
...and in each case, it returned an empty string.
Any ideas?
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Apr 22nd, 2004, 05:54 PM
#3
I have this example from allapi.net which is where you may have
got the example from and they use different const.'s
This works for me but the UserDefault.
VB Code:
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function GetLocaleInfo Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetLocaleInfoA" (ByVal Locale As Long, _
ByVal LCType As Long, ByVal lpLCData As String, ByVal cchData As Long) As Long
Private Const LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT = &H400
Private Const LOCALE_SDECIMAL As Long = &HE
Private Const LOCALE_ILDATE As Long = &H22
Private Const LOCALE_ICOUNTRY As Long = &H5
Private Const LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY = &H1002 ' English name of country
Private Const LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE = &H1001 ' English name of language
Private Const LOCALE_SNATIVELANGNAME = &H4 ' native name of language
Private Const LOCALE_SNATIVECTRYNAME = &H8 ' native name of country
Public Function GetInfo(ByVal lInfo As Long) As String
Dim Buffer As String
Dim Ret As String
Buffer = String$(256, 0)
Ret = GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, lInfo, Buffer, Len(Buffer))
If Ret > 0 Then
GetInfo = Left$(Buffer, Ret - 1)
Else
GetInfo = ""
End If
End Function
Private Sub Form_Load()
MsgBox "You live in " & GetInfo(LOCALE_SENGCOUNTRY) & _
" (" & GetInfo(LOCALE_SNATIVECTRYNAME) & ")," & vbCrLf & "and you speak " & GetInfo(LOCALE_SENGLANGUAGE) & _
" (" & GetInfo(LOCALE_SNATIVELANGNAME) & ").", vbInformation 'WORKS CORRECTLY
MsgBox ("UserDefault: " & GetInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT)) 'STILL EMPTY STRING
MsgBox ("SDecimal: " & GetInfo(LOCALE_SDECIMAL)) 'RETURNS "."
MsgBox ("ILDate: " & GetInfo(LOCALE_ILDATE)) 'RETURNS "0"
MsgBox ("Country: " & GetInfo(LOCALE_ICOUNTRY)) 'RETURNS "1"
End Sub
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Apr 22nd, 2004, 06:18 PM
#4
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Thanks for the response...
As it turns out, if I just use the hex codes, things work fine.
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May 10th, 2004, 09:23 PM
#5
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Application.International(xlCountrySetting)
this will return the regional country settings and you will be able to set your application accordingly.
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