How to fill day of week array

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ATV

Joined: 31 Aug 2004
Posts: 109
Location: Finland

ATV 26 Jul 2007, 07:22

Is there easy way to get list of day_of_week in short format from user settings.
I am adding weekday names in my alarm program http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=5086

One easy way would be read them in ini file and overwrite 4*7 bytes array, but Im trying to do it automaticly.

Code:

  weekdays4        db 'Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun ',0

;in ini file with dummy x
weekdays4=Ma  Ti  Ke  To  Pe  La  Su  x

26 Jul 2007, 07:22

ATV

Joined: 31 Aug 2004
Posts: 109
Location: Finland

ATV 27 Jul 2007, 07:09

I found solution, it was almost too easy.
Updated Alarm v0.11 in project area

Code:

LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT = 0400h
proc get_weekday_names
local temp_date:SYSTEMTIME
   push    ebx edi
     mov     edi,weekdays4
       mov     ebx,23
      .new_day:
       mov     [temp_date.wDay],bx     ; 23.july.2007 is monday
    mov     [temp_date.wMonth],7
        mov     [temp_date.wYear],2007
      lea     edx,[temp_date]
     invoke  GetDateFormat,LOCALE_USER_DEFAULT,0,edx,day_name_format,edi,8
       add     edi,4
       inc     ebx
 cmp     ebx,30                  ; loop until full week is done
      jb      .new_day
    mov     byte [edi],0
        pop     edi ebx
     ret
endp

day_name_format db 'ddd   ',0
weekdays4 db 'Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun     ',0 ; 4 extra bytes for read buffer

27 Jul 2007, 07:09

shoorick

Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Posts: 1614
Location: Ukraine

shoorick 27 Jul 2007, 07:38

yes, it works ok

27 Jul 2007, 07:38

peter

Joined: 09 May 2006
Posts: 63

peter 29 Jul 2007, 23:04

Use GetLocaleInfo function with LOCALE_SABBREVDAYNAME1, LOCALE_SABBREVDAYNAME2, etc.

29 Jul 2007, 23:04

ATV

Joined: 31 Aug 2004
Posts: 109
Location: Finland

ATV 31 Jul 2007, 07:05

peter, thanks. I knew there must be some API to get it, I just didn't find it. Magic words "Locale Information" and there are more useful local stuff.

31 Jul 2007, 07:05

kohlrak

Joined: 21 Jul 2006
Posts: 1421
Location: Uncle Sam's Pad

kohlrak 31 Jul 2007, 09:00

Agreed. Windows has alot of fancy features like this that are nice to have, we just don't know where they are or, worse off, that they even exist. For all i know, there could be a function in windows that does the message loop for me. There might even be a way to clear the console window without throwing out a bunch of spaces after resetting position to 0,0 or using system("CLS") which is slow.

31 Jul 2007, 09:00

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