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Making things better out from under people: the story of MUI (2007/10/31)
… to something I have been wanting to cover for some time: Can you please shed some light on the inner workings of SHLoadIndirectString ()? I'm trying to "MUI enable" some of my application and it looks like SHLoadIndirectString() plays a key role in…
MSKLC keyboard layout names in your own language (2007/08/25)
… that something is going on: That bit with the Custom Language Display Name and the Layout Display Name and their SHLoadIndirectString style strings is fairly obvious. (I still have to talk more about SHLoadIndirectString; I'll do that another day) …
Getting the language (and more!) of an LCID-less keyboard (2007/08/23)
…ed; The following relevant registry values are added underneath the new subkey: Custom Language Display Name - an SHLoadIndirectString style string pointing to a resource in the layout DLL that contains the name of the custom language -- for our cus…
How can be changed the keyboard layout name label? (2007/01/05)
…t Romanian That "Layout Display Name" entry (which has been around since XP) is a string designed for the SHLWAPI SHLoadIndirectString function. The way that it changes when the UI language changes is the way all of the rest of the resources change …
It's not my imagination; that function is ignoring me! (2006/08/24)
…ion, which sets the localized name of a folder. Basically it lets you set things up so that the Shell can use the SHLoadIndirectString function (which I have mentioned before) can be called. Anyway, the problem was that sometimes it wasn't working. …
Keyboards and time zones have something in common (2006/05/06)
…will contain strings in SHLoadIndirectString-friendly format, so they can be loaded from a DLL. (As a by-the-way, SHLoadIndirectString is well designed in terms of backcompat since if the string passed in is not in the specific format, the same stri…
Getting the real (localized) name of the keyboard (2006/05/06)
…ut Display Name - This value only exists in XP and later; it contains a string suitable for interpretation by the SHLoadIndirectString function, which can be a pointer to a string in a DLL that contains the localized name of the keyboard layout, bas…
How do I get the @!#$% name of the keyboard? (2004/12/05)
…as the helpful string "@%SystemRoot%\system32\input.dll,-5027" in it -- which thankfully can be sent to SHLWAPI's SHLoadIndirectString to get the name. In the back of my mind I have to remember that its all subject to change since none of it is docu…
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