I am trying to add functionally that allows the user to chose their date
format from within our application. In the application options screen the
user can choose one of dd/mm/yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy, dd/mm/yy, mm/dd/yy. When our
application fires up I set the global ShortDateFormat variable and the date
format our database uses to the date format the user has chosen.
This all works quite well. The problem that I am having is that some of the
3rd party components we use (including a date picker) use the Windows
regional setting date format internally. When the user chooses a date with
the calendar part of the date picker (for example today's date 8/9/2000) it
can get put in the edit box as 9/8/2000.
I am able to set the regional setting date format with a call such as:
SetLocaleInfo(GetUserDefaultLCID, LOCALE_SSHORTDATE, PChar('dd/MM/yyyy'));
Unfortunately this changes the date format for all applications. I want to
limit it to only my application. I have had a read through the Windows API
help and I can find a function (SetThreadLocale() ) that changes the locale
for a thread. I want to do something similar with the short date format
and set it for my thread only.
Does anyone know of a way to do this?
TIA
Guy Brown
TimeMaster System
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