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howto get Windows system language from registry

Hi all,

I'm doing some development on office automatisation, and i ran into a little problem i can easily avoid, if only I can get the language of the Windows OS installed... The windows OS's i use are Windows 2003 and Windows XP. Now i'm running them in Dutch, French and English.
I guess there must be a registry-key somewhere indicating the installed Windows language...
Can anyone help me on that?

Thanx in advance!

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Jase-Coder

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jeroenlemaire

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can this function be called from VBA? if yes, can u tell me how?

Jase-Coder

you can call this function using VBA. take a look at http://vb.mvps.org/articles/ap199808.pdf
there is an article showing how to call this functon using vb

jeroenlemaire

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For those who might be interested in how to use this in VBA:

'declare the function to call from the kernel32
Private Declare Function GetSystemDefaultLangID Lib "kernel32" () As Long

Once you've done that, you can get the languageID in a string like this:
Dim LanguageID as Integer
LanguageID = CInt(CStr(Val("&H" & Right(Hex(GetSystemDefaultLangID()), 3))))

Thanks for getting me started Jase-coder!
The 250pts are for you!

Danny Child

This key here
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Keyboard Layout\Preload
sets the default language for the login screen, which may answer your query

This link here shows the different country codes in use.
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/14867/14867.html

hth, Danny

jeroenlemaire

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this is not the system language, but the keyboard lay-out...
i guess your kinda off-topic here...