RE: [NtDev] RE: what country am I in? (ZwQueryDefaultLocale)

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Mark,

Use the Co-installer. Oney has an example in his book, and provides a
template. The toaster example also has one. Your looking at maybe 2 or 3
days, unless you can’t spell C++, for a permanent solution that is fairly
independent of install screw ups.

Gary G. Little
Staff Engineer
Broadband Storage, Inc.
xxxxx@Broadstor.com
xxxxx@inland.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Riley [mailto:xxxxx@NSINE.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 6:56 AM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: what country am I in? (ZwQueryDefaultLocale)

oops, my optimism might be a light premature! how do I use
ZwQueryDefaultLocale? it’s not documented in the DDK, and I can’t even find
its prototype in the ddk header files. am I missing something here? for
your info, I’m developing an NDIS driver for the windows 2000 platform.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Riley [mailto:xxxxx@NSINE.com]
Sent: 05 June 2001 14:21
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: what country am I in?

thanks for your help, I think, ZwQueryDefaultLocale, is exactly what I need.
regarding, terminal server, this is not an issue, as the requirement for the
locale is for a driver that is currently in development, longer term, the
locale info will not be necessary.

once again thanks

mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Burn [mailto:xxxxx@acm.org]
Sent: 05 June 2001 13:09
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: what country am I in?

What are you going to do about terminal server? It is
now possible to have the machine in one country and
users in other countries. If you have a specific need
based on locale, you might consider ZwQueryDefaultLocale
which is available in kernel mode. This can query for
either the specific thread or the system’s default.

Don Burn
Windows 2000 Device Driver and Filesystem consulting

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[mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Mark Riley
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:54 PM
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] what country am I in?

Hi

I am developing a driver, which needs to behave differently in the US, as
opposed to Europe. It seems to me that this can be done as 1 of 3
different
ways:

  1. at installation explicitly ask the user what country the driver should
    be
    configured for - is this via a co installer?
  2. at installation extract the information from the current windows
    configuration - can the inf file do this for you?
  3. at run time extract the information from the current windows
    configuration - is there an api to extract this info from the registry?

which is the best solution, and how do i do it?!

hope someone can help

best regards

Mark Riley

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thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Burn [mailto:xxxxx@acm.org]
Sent: 05 June 2001 19:05
To: NT Developers Interest List
Subject: [ntdev] RE: what country am I in? (ZwQueryDefaultLocale)

Mark,

It is an undocumented export fron ntoskrnl,
the following should help

NTSTATUS ZwQueryDefaultLocale(
IN BOOLEAN SystemLocale,
OUT PULONG DefaultLocale);

Parameters

SystemLocale TRUE if the system locale should be returned
DefaultLocale Points to the ULONG to receive the default locale

Return Value

NTSTATUS code indicating STATUS_SUCCESS or reason for failure.

Description

ZwQueryDefaultLocale returns the default ID of the locale in which the
system or thread running.

Don Burn
Windows 2000 Device Driver and Filesystem consulting

----- Original Message -----
From: “Mark Riley”
To: “NT Developers Interest List”
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 9:56 AM
Subject: [ntdev] RE: what country am I in? (ZwQueryDefaultLocale)

> oops, my optimism might be a light premature! how do I use
> ZwQueryDefaultLocale? it’s not documented in the DDK, and I can’t even
find
> its prototype in the ddk header files. am I missing something here? for
> your info, I’m developing an NDIS driver for the windows 2000 platform.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Riley [mailto:xxxxx@NSINE.com]
> Sent: 05 June 2001 14:21
> To: NT Developers Interest List
> Subject: [ntdev] RE: what country am I in?
>
>
> thanks for your help, I think, ZwQueryDefaultLocale, is exactly what I
need.
> regarding, terminal server, this is not an issue, as the requirement for
the
> locale is for a driver that is currently in development, longer term, the
> locale info will not be necessary.
>
> once again thanks
>
> mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Burn [mailto:xxxxx@acm.org]
> Sent: 05 June 2001 13:09
> To: NT Developers Interest List
> Subject: [ntdev] RE: what country am I in?
>
>
> What are you going to do about terminal server? It is
> now possible to have the machine in one country and
> users in other countries. If you have a specific need
> based on locale, you might consider ZwQueryDefaultLocale
> which is available in kernel mode. This can query for
> either the specific thread or the system’s default.
>
> Don Burn
> Windows 2000 Device Driver and Filesystem consulting
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xxxxx@lists.osr.com
> > [mailto:xxxxx@lists.osr.com]On Behalf Of Mark Riley
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 4:54 PM
> > To: NT Developers Interest List
> > Subject: [ntdev] what country am I in?
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I am developing a driver, which needs to behave differently in the US,
as
> > opposed to Europe. It seems to me that this can be done as 1 of 3
> different
> > ways:
> > 1. at installation explicitly ask the user what country the driver
should
> be
> > configured for - is this via a co installer?
> > 2. at installation extract the information from the current windows
> > configuration - can the inf file do this for you?
> > 3. at run time extract the information from the current windows
> > configuration - is there an api to extract this info from the registry?
> >
> > which is the best solution, and how do i do it?!
> >
> > hope someone can help
> >
> > best regards
> >
> > Mark Riley
>
>
>
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