On Apr 22, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Stephane Madrau wrote:

> Le 22 avr. 2010 à 18:19, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com a écrit :
> 
>> Thanks, but no. What I'm passing in is the keys for the dictionary I get as 
>> a result of this code:
>> 
>> io_connect_t thePort = CGDisplayIOServicePort(theScreenNumber);
>> CFDictionaryRef theInfo = 
>> (CFDictionaryRef)IODisplayCreateInfoDictionary(thePort, 0);
>> CFDictionaryRef theNames = CFDictionaryGetValue(theInfo, 
>> CFSTR(kDisplayProductName));
>> 
>> theNames will look something like this:
>> 
>> "en_US" -> "Color LCD"
>> "en_GB" -> "Colour LCD"
>> "fr_FR" -> "LCD couleur"
>> ....
> 
> 
> Did you check what Apple themselves do within IODisplayLib.c (IOKitUser / 
> graphics.subproj) ?
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/IOKitUser/IOKitUser-514.8.1/graphics.subproj/IODisplayLib.c
> Check the function named "GenerateProductName"...
> 
> Of course, it's all plain CoreFoundation, but for me it works
> (or I didn't see the problem you are seeing and I missed your point)

Ding!

(Newer members to the list, please take note that this is why sometimes the 
first answer to your question is "What are you *really* trying to do?")

Passing the constant kIODisplayOnlyPreferredName as the second argument to 
IODisplayCreateInfoDictionary() obviated my problem of determining the correct 
localization to use by only actually giving me one (and a good one) back.

Thanks very much, Stephane.

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