Check & change decimal separator

Rosen Marinov

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Jun 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/27/00

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Hi,
How can I check and if necessary to change decimal separator
in Windows ?

Thanks,
Rosen Marinov

Olray Dragon

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Jun 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/27/00

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On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 12:42:15 +0300, "Rosen Marinov"
<rose...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>How can I check and if necessary to change decimal separator
>in Windows ?

You may not. It's changed by the user using a control panel function.
When you need to change it temporarily in your delphi program use the
following line of code in the initialization of your first unit:

DecimalSeparator := ',';

Bob Villiers

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Jun 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/27/00

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Look under Regional Settings in the Control Panel.

If you mean in code (unchecked):

if SysUtils.DecimalSeparator = '.' then SysUtils.DecimalSeparator :=
',';

Bob
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Bill Todd (TeamB)

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Jun 27, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/27/00

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If you want to change the Windows Control Panel setting from code try
posting a message in the winapi newsgroup.

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Rosen Marinov

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Jun 28, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/28/00

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Thanks, but I want to change decimal separator for ALL Windows
Applications.

Rosen Marinov

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Earl F. Glynn

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Jun 28, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/28/00

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"Rosen Marinov" <rose...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:395874c8@dnews...

> Hi,
> How can I check and if necessary to change decimal separator
> in Windows ?

Here is a recent post by Peter Below about DecimalSeparator:
http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=624223515

In one application I didn't do what Peter recommended --
I hardcoded some strings with decimal points. I used the following
to replace these decimal points with whatever the DecimalSeparator is:

// 4.00 becomes 4,00 if the DecimalSeparator is a ','
FUNCTION LocalizeFloatString(CONST s: STRING): STRING;
BEGIN
RESULT := s;
IF POS('.', RESULT) > 0
THEN RESULT[POS('.',RESULT)] := DecimalSeparator
END {LocalizeFloatString};

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Overland Park, KS USA

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Rosen Marinov

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Jun 28, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/28/00

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Thanks, but I want to change decimal separator for ALL Windows

Applications ( in Control Panel ).

Rosen Marinov

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Bob Villiers

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Jun 30, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/30/00

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In article <8jb9ll$4c...@bornews.borland.com>, Bill Todd (TeamB) wrote:
> If you want to change the Windows Control Panel setting from code try
> posting a message in the winapi newsgroup.
>

Is that a WM_HOWDOICHANGEDECIMALSEPARATOR message? Should it be Posted
or Sent?

Samih

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Jul 21, 2000, 3:00:00 AM7/21/00

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You need to refresh the values of focused window.

Rosen Marinov wrote in message <3959bf49@dnews>...

>Thanks, but I want to change decimal separator for ALL Windows