Hi,

Does the RTL have any why to notify me if the users locale is LeftToRight or RightToLeft? I'm porting the MiG Layout Manager from Java to Free Pascal for use with fpGUI Toolkit and Lazarus LCL, and need to somehow find this information.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

No, you can not know by the "normal" locale. You must check to see what is the type of locale:
1. Hebrew
2. Many forms of Arabic (you have more then 6 if I remember correctly)

That's the only way I know to detect if the locale is RightToLeft or LeftToRight.
I started working on something for Lazarus but I accidently deleted it before backup, so you'll have to do your own research (wikipedia and some ISO language code will help).

Ido

Thanks. I'll double check what Java does, seeing that that is the only other framework I know that supports so many platforms and has the direction detection built in.

I started working on something for Lazarus but I accidently deleted it before backup,

Git [http://git-scm.com/] is your friend! ;-)

Regards,
- Graeme -

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fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit
http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/

Java supports all of Unicode's standards, so they also implement Bidi (I hope one day fpGUI will also support it in a native form)