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On Thursday, 2 June 2011 at 05:52:51 UTC, Andrew Wiley wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote:
>
>> "Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrovich@gmail.com> wrote in 
>> message 
>> news:mailman.521.1306960464.14074.digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com...
>> > >From my understanding of this page
>> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd318136%28v=vs.85%29.aspx :
>> >
>> > "Note  The application should call this function in 
>> > preference to GetUserDefaultLCID if designed to run only on 
>> > Windows Vista and later."
>> >
>> > It's not in kernel32.lib distributed with DMD. You would 
>> > have to create an OMF import lib by calling implib /system 
>> > kernel32.dll (your own kernel32.dll) if you're actually 
>> > using Vista or a newer OS and then linking with that. But 
>> > you can say goodbye to supporting Windows older than Vista.
>> >
>> > OTOH GetUserDefaultLCID /is/ in the kernel32.lib distributed 
>> > with DMD. So why not use that?
>>
>> Lloyd, if the program you're writing is designed to be sold or 
>> distributed
>> to the public then I'd highly recommend against doing anything 
>> that
>> requires
>> at least Vista. From what I've heard, the adoption rates of 
>> Vista and Win7
>> haven't been very good and about half of the Windows systems 
>> out there are
>> still XP and pretty much holding there. A *lot* of Windows 
>> users are
>> deliberately sticking with XP, and you'll be loosing a lot of 
>> people.
>>
>> Of course, if your software is only designed to be used 
>> internally by some company, or just for you own use, etc., 
>> then obviously it doesn't matter...
>>
>>
>> Actually, Windows 7 is growing somewhat exponentially and XP 
>> is falling,
> though that fall isn't accelerating too rapidly. However, XP 
> still sits at around 45%.

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