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Working with Localized System Profiles

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The Windows Media Format SDK includes system profiles with names and descriptions in several languages. The localized system profile .prx files are installed into the [SDKRoot]\WMSDK\WMFSDK9\LocalizedProfiles folder. To access a particular file with the IWMProfileManagerLanguage methods, you must move it into the system root directory along with the other system profile files. For a list of the localized system profile files, see Localized System Profiles.

You can set or retrieve the system profile language using the methods of the IWMProfileManagerLanguage interface. The language is specified as a LANGID value, which consists of a primary language identifier and a secondary language identifier. The following code demonstrates how to retrieve the current language. The default language is U.S. English (0x409). For more information about using this code, see Using the Code Examples.

HRESULT GetCurrentSystemProfileLanguage(IMWProfilManager* pProfileMgr)
{
    HRESULT hr = S_OK;

    IWMProfileManagerLanguage* pProfileMgrLang = NULL;

    // Get the profile manager language interface.
    hr = pProfileMgr->QueryInterface(IID_IWMProfileManagerLanguage,
                                     (void **) &pProfileMgrLang);
    if(FAILED(hr))
    {
        printf("Couldn't get IWMProfileManagerLanguage.\n");
        SAFE_RELEASE(pProfileMgrLang);
        return hr;
    }

    // Retrieve the current language (as a LANGID value)
    WORD wLangID = 0;
    hr = pProfileMgrLang->GetUserLanguageID(&wLangID);
    if(FAILED(hr))
    {
        printf("Could not get the current language.\n");
        SAFE_RELEASE(pProfileMgrLang);
        return hr;
    }

    printf("The current language ID is 0x%X\n", wLangID);

    SAFE_RELEASE(pProfileMgrLang);
    return S_OK;
}

Using System Profiles