About This Code
Brief Description:
Get Logged On User Name For The Pc
Contributor:
Andrew Jones
Last Modified:
17 Jun 2002
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Code / Description
This simple windows API call will retrieve the user name of the person currently looged on to the computer, be it the network user name, or the Windows customisation user name. Just try it and see, it will come in pretty handy at times, if you want that extra bit of validation, or just want to make sure who the person is via there windows user name.
Usage / Example
Code
Place the following API call into the declrations part of your database:
'-------------------------------------
Declare Function GetUserName Lib "advapi32.dll" Alias "GetUserNameA" (Byval
lpBuffer As String, nSize As Long) As Long
'-------------------------------------
This next part can go pertty much anywhere:
'-------------------------------------
Dim lpBuff As String * 25
Dim ret As Long
ret = GetUserName(lpBuff, 25)
UserName = Ucase(Left(lpBuff, Instr(lpBuff, Chr(0)) - 1))
Msgbox "User name: " + UserName
'-------------------------------------
I'm really a VB programmer having a go at Lotus Script, so thats why some of it
may look a bit odd or wrong.