Re: Calculations on activex components using IUSR

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Looks nice, but I don't still don't see a solution to my problem.
After doing the calculations on my values the value is converted to string
"cStr()"
because it is used in a string that is part of the webpage source.
When converting the value to string it contains a comma instead of period.

What really frustrate me is that in the exe - project this works perfect,
but not in the webproject (dll) under IIS. The values in the html source for
IIS contains commas, but the html source generated with my local vb
application contains periods.

Kind regards,

Jon Haakon


"Tony Proctor" <tony_proctor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you're manually converting between strings and numbers then 'Yes', use
Val() and Str(). They will always use ".", irrespective of the regional
settings.

If you have other locale issues (e.g. date/time formatting) then your
problem is bigger. If your application wasn't designed to be locale-aware
then you're "fighting against the tide". There are APIs to set the locale
for a given process or thread, but VB's runtime has generally already
initialised itself by then, and doesn't change its locale settings
afterwards.

To be honest, I'm not sure how you would change the regional settings just
for the IUSR_* user, and it doesn't sound like a good idea anyway since it
may affect other applications running under that account.

Tony Proctor

"Jon Haakon Ariansen" <jona@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Tony!

Thanks for fast reply!
Isn't there any way to override the default settings for IUSR to always
work
with periods (.)?

Kind regards,

Jon Haakon


"Tony Proctor" <tony_proctor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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Val() will only accept "." Jon. It's one of the few VB functions that
are
not locale-aware. Str() is another case.

Try using CDbl() instead.

Tony Proctor

"Jon Haakon Ariansen" <jona@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I couldn't find a newsgroup more suitable this one for my question so
here
it goes.

I have made a VB dll (activeX) that runs on Windows 2003.
It's been installed many places and works fine however, there is one
server
that doesn't process the pages correct.
It uses comma (,) instead of period (.) on values with decimals. I
have
tried using VAL() function, but I can't get it to work right. The
value
is
converted to string when it is finished calculated.

I have made the component into an exe project and there it works fine.
I guess this is because running as exe, the "owner" running the
process
is
the local administrator and when it is a DLL it is the
IUSR_<machinename>
that runs the process with default settings.
My question is where and how to make "IUSR_<machinename>" use
different
settings (eg. Regional settings) as settings for all the calculations
in
the
dll. I need to control the settings "IUSR_" user uses.

I really hope there is someone that knows this...
In advance thanks a lot! The one with the correct answer will get a
big
award in heaven. Thanks!

Kind regards,

Jon Haakon










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