Article ID: 250276
Article Last Modified on 3/1/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Platform Software Development Kit-January 2000 Edition
This article was previously published under Q250276
SUMMARY
On a Windows 2000-based computer, you can dynamically change the application user interface from left-to-right to right-to-left.
MORE INFORMATION
This can be accomplished by using the following code:
// Use ANSI versions of GetWindowLong() and SetWindowLong() because
// Unicode is not needed for these calls.
lExStyles = GetWindowLongA(hWnd, GWL_EXSTYLE) ;
// Check whether new layout is opposite the current layout.
if(!!(pLState->IsRTLLayout) != !!(lExStyles & WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL))
{
// The following lines update the application layout to
// be right-to-left or left-to-right, as appropriate.
lExStyles ^= WS_EX_LAYOUTRTL ; // Toggle layout.
SetWindowLongA(hWnd, GWL_EXSTYLE, lExStyles) ;
// This is to update layout in the client area.
InvalidateRect(hWnd, NULL, TRUE) ;
}
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