KeyboardCapabilities Class

Definition

Namespace:

Windows.Devices.Input

Provides the ability to determine the capabilities of any connected hardware keyboards.

public ref class KeyboardCapabilities sealed

/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract, 65536)]
/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingBehavior(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingType.Agile)]
/// [Windows.Foundation.Metadata.Activatable(65536, "Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract")]
class KeyboardCapabilities final

[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(typeof(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract), 65536)]
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingBehavior(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingType.Agile)]
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.Activatable(65536, "Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract")]
public sealed class KeyboardCapabilities

function KeyboardCapabilities()

Public NotInheritable Class KeyboardCapabilities

Inheritance

Object Platform::Object IInspectable KeyboardCapabilities

Attributes

ActivatableAttribute ContractVersionAttribute MarshalingBehaviorAttribute

Windows requirements

Device family	Windows 10 (introduced in 10.0.10240.0)
API contract	Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract (introduced in v1.0)

Remarks

The Device Capabilities Sample demonstrates how to detect the presence of input devices and retrieve the capabilities and attributes of each device.

The following code shows how to create an instance of this class and use it to determine if a keyboard is present.

function getKeyboardCapabilities() {
  var keyboardCapabilities = new Windows.Devices.Input.KeyboardCapabilities();
  id("keyboardPresent").innerHTML = keyboardCapabilities.keyboardPresent;
}

Constructors

KeyboardCapabilities()

Initializes a new instance of the KeyboardCapabilities class.

Properties

KeyboardPresent

Gets a value that indicates whether a device identifying itself as a keyboard is detected.

See also

• Identify input devices
• Basic input sample (Windows 10)