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[Texmacs-dev] Deprecate FullName.exe


From: Darcy Shen
Subject: [Texmacs-dev] Deprecate FullName.exe
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 12:07:01 +0800
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Since SVN revision 13808, we do not need FullName.exe to get the full name of the user any more on Windows.

I tried using GetUserNameEx to get the full name of the login user, but failed.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21766954/how-to-get-windows-users-full-name-in-python

And finally, I googled about how to get the full name using Python. Verified with the python snippets in the TeXmacs Python session:

import ctypes
 
def get_display_name():
    GetUserNameEx = ctypes.windll.secur32.GetUserNameExW
    NameDisplay = 3
 
    size = ctypes.pointer(ctypes.c_ulong(0))
    GetUserNameEx(NameDisplay, None, size)
 
    nameBuffer = ctypes.create_unicode_buffer(size.contents.value)
    GetUserNameEx(NameDisplay, nameBuffer, size)
    return nameBuffer.value

It turns out that we need to call GetUserNameEx twice to make the C++ code work!!!


Python win32 api seems to be a good way to expore Windows API before coding in C++.



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