Thanks Bob. I guess I'm still not sure how to use those keywords. For example, let's say I have a date stored in a database as 2011-03-01 and I want to display that in accordance with the users preference setting (on a Mac). Prowling around the dictionary, it looks like maybe if I convert the database date to be in dateitems format, I could use "convert myDate from dateitems to short system date" to do what I want. and vice versa. Same for time format conversion. Or is there a better way?
On the number Format, I don't think that helps me. Seems like it just allows you to specify how many decimal places there should be in a number and doesn't use whatever is in the user's preferences to format it. I need to get hold of the characters used to represent the decimal point, the thousands separator, and the currency symbol. I suppose I can provide a way for the user to specify that within my app, just seems a waste when the info is, or should be, available from the OS preferences. Pete Haworth On Feb 28, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > the system time, the system date, the numberFormat. > > Bob > > > On Feb 27, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> I would like to ensure that all dates, numbers, and currency values in my >> app are formatted according to the user's preferences in the Format tab of >> the OSX Language and Text Preferences. I found the dateFormat property that >> helps but haven't found anything in LC that helps with the other formats. >> Does LC provide a way to get hold of those preferences or does anyone have >> an Applescript that will do it? >> >> Pete Haworth >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
