Keyboard Functions

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The following table shows the keyboard functions, with a description of the purpose of each.

• ActivateKeyboardLayout
  This function sets the input locale identifier, formerly called the keyboard layout handle, for the system.

• AllKeys
  This function allows all button presses to be passed to an application, bypassing the operating system.

• CreateAcceleratorTable
  This function creates an accelerator table.

• DestroyAcceleratorTable
  This function destroys an accelerator table.

• EnableHardwareKeyboard
  This function enables or disables the keyboard.

• EnableWindow
  This function enables or disables mouse and keyboard input to the specified window or control.

• GetActiveWindow
  This function retrieves the window handle to the active window associated with the thread that calls the function.

• GetAsyncKeyState
  This function determines whether a key is up or down at the time the function is called, and whether the key was pressed after a previous call to GetAsyncKeyState.

• GetFocus
  This function retrieves the handle to the keyboard focus window associated with the thread that called the function.

• GetKeyboardLayout
  This function retrieves the active keyboard layout for a specified thread.

• GetKeyboardLayoutList
  This function retrieves the input locale identifiers, formerly called keyboard layout handles, corresponding to the current set of input locales in the system.

• GetKeyboardLayoutName
  This function retrieves the name of the active keyboard layout.

• GetKeyboardStatus
  This function returns the status of the hardware keyboard.

• GetKeyboardType
  This function retrieves information about the current keyboard.

• GetKeyState
  This function retrieves the status of the specified virtual key.

• IsWindowEnabled
  This function determines whether the specified window is enabled for touch screen input and keyboard input.

• keybd_event
  This function synthesizes a keystroke. The system can use such a synthesized keystroke to generate a WM_KEYUP or WM_KEYDOWN message.

• KeybdGetDeviceInfo
  This function returns information about the keyboard and the keyboard driver.

• LoadAccelerators
  This function loads the specified accelerator table.

• LoadKeyboardLayout
  This function places the specified layout in the available layout list.

• MapVirtualKey
  This function translates, or maps, a virtual-key code into a scan code or character value, or translates a scan code into a virtual-key code.

• PostKeybdMessage
  This function posts a keyboard message to the specified window.

• RegisterHotKey
  This function defines a system-wide hot key.

• SendInput
  This function synthesizes keystrokes, stylus and mouse motions, and button clicks.

• SetActiveWindow
  This function makes the specified top-level window associated with the thread calling this function the active window.

• SetFocus
  This function sets the keyboard focus to the specified window.

• TranslateAccelerator
  This function processes accelerator keys for menu commands.

• GetKeyEventSource
  Returns the source of a key event, and distiguishes between d–pad, rocker and software events.

• LoadKeyMap
  Overrides the default keyboard layout with new KEYMAPPING data.

• UnloadKeyMap
  Unloads the current keyboard mapping data, and restores the default keyboard mapping data.

See Also

Reference

Keyboard Reference