[RESOLVED] VB equivalent for C++ GetLocaleInfo

[sford]

Is there a VB equivalent function to the following C++ function?

::GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, LOCALE_SLIST, szBuf, sizeof(szBuf)) ;

[DataMiser]

is this what you are looking for ?

Public 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

[sford]

Well... it may be...

I declared it as you provided it...
Then I am using it like this... (FYI... I don't know much about VB... I am more familiar with C++)

Dim txt As String
Dim lResult As Long

lResult = GetLocaleInfo(1024, 12, txt, 100)

I get 1024 and 12 from the definitions of LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT and LOCALE_SLIST which I am using in a C++ app...

txt comes back empty... and lResult comes back as zero...
The C++ version seems to work quite well...

I will be very grateful for any suggestions you can offer... Thanks!

[Shuja Ali]

Take a look at the sample which at the bottom which at the bottom of this page
http://allapi.mentalis.org/apilist/GetLocaleInfo.shtml

[sford]

That example was very helpful...
It turns out the only thing I needed to change was to init the buffer

Dim Buffer As String, Ret As String
 Buffer = String$(256, 0)                      '<-- LIKE THIS...
 Ret = GetLocaleInfo(LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT, lInfo, Buffer, Len(Buffer))