Answered Reading registry key

[BobyIsProgress]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to make my app more user friendly. And for this I need to matche the time format of the user like "HH:MM:SS" on 24h for Europeen and "HH:MM:SS AM/PM" for English type.

For this I tried to read a specific registry key. For this I found the following kb:

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And so I write this:

DEF VAR DATA AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO.
LOAD "SOFTWARE" BASE-KEY "HKEY_CURRENT_USER".
USE "SOFTWARE".

GET-KEY-VALUE SECTION "Control Panel\International"
KEY "LocaleName"
VALUE DATA.   

UNLOAD "SOFTWARE".

MESSAGE DATA
    VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX INFO BUTTONS OK

But it's only returning the default value "?"

Did I don't understand the way of doing it ? Did I miss something ?
Are you able to do it ?

Best-Regards,

BobyIsProgress

 

[BobyIsProgress]

Hi,

I found the solution. I was loading "SOFTWARE" that is a child of HKLM so I load "Control Panel" and it works very well.

DEF VAR DATA AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO.
LOAD "Control Panel" BASE-KEY "HKEY_CURRENT_USER".
USE "Control Panel".

GET-KEY-VALUE SECTION "International"
KEY "LocaleName"
VALUE DATA.   

UNLOAD "Control Panel".

MESSAGE DATA
    VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX INFO BUTTONS OK.

Best Regards,

- BobyIsProgress -

 

[Cringer]

IMO you should always use 24 hour clocks and I'm English

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

IMO you should always use 24 hour clocks and I'm English

Agreed, despite growing up with AM/PM. When I started in operations which uses a 24-hour clock, I realized it was the right way to do things.

 

[BobyIsProgress]

I will just use it as a screen-value never as a data value that i will store in my DB. Also i store only my times in second