by Lee Davies (1 Submission)
Category: Windows API Call/Explanation
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: 
(2 Votes)
Gets you Locale information from your machine. It's well freaky because it knows what country you come from!!!!!!
Assumes
Just use type - Call GetTheLocaleInfo()
API DeclarationsPublic 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
VBcodersPublic Const LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT = &H400
Public Const LOCALE_IDATE = &H21 ' short date format ordering
Public Const LOCALE_SLANGUAGE = &H2 ' localized name of language
Public Const LOCALE_SCOUNTRY = &H6 ' localized name of country
Public Const LOCALE_SCURRENCY = &H14 ' local monetary symbol
Public Const LOCALE_ILDATE = &H22 ' long date format ordering
Sub GetTheLocaleInfo()
Dim strBuffer As String * 100
Dim lngReturn As Long
Dim strResult As String
Dim msg As String
lngReturn = GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_IDATE, strBuffer, 99)
strResult = LPSTRToVBString(strBuffer)
Select Case strResult
Case "0":
msg = "mm/dd/yy"
Case "1":
msg = "dd/mm/yy"
Case "2":
msg = "yy/mm/dd"
Case Else:
msg = "#Error#"
End Select
Debug.Print "You are using the " & msg & " short date format"
lngReturn = GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_ILDATE, strBuffer, 99)
strResult = LPSTRToVBString(strBuffer)
Select Case strResult
Case "0":
msg = "mm/dd/yyyy"
Case "1":
msg = "dd/mm/yyyy"
Case "2":
msg = "yyyy/mm/dd"
Case Else:
msg = "#Error#"
End Select
Debug.Print "You are using the " & msg & " Long date format"
lngReturn = GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SLANGUAGE, strBuffer, 99)
strResult = LPSTRToVBString(strBuffer)
Debug.Print "You are using " & strResult & " language"
lngReturn = GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SCOUNTRY, strBuffer, 99)
strResult = LPSTRToVBString(strBuffer)
Debug.Print "You live in " & strResult & "!"
lngReturn = GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SCURRENCY, strBuffer, 99)
strResult = LPSTRToVBString(strBuffer)
Debug.Print "You use " & strResult & " as your currency!"
End Sub
Public Function LPSTRToVBString(ByVal s As String) As String
Dim nullpos As Integer
nullpos = InStr(s, Chr(0))
If nullpos > 0 Then
LPSTRToVBString = Left(s, nullpos - 1)
Else
LPSTRToVBString = ""
End If
End Function
