11 Keyboard API Function

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SetKeyboardState

The SetKeyboardState function copies a 256-byte array of keyboard key states into the calling thread’s keyboard-input state table....
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SendInput

The SendInput function synthesizes keystrokes, mouse motions, and button clicks...
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LoadKeyboardLayout

The LoadKeyboardLayout function loads a new input locale identifier (formerly called the keyboard layout) into the system. Several input locale identifiers can be loaded at a time, but only one per process is active at a time. Loading multiple input locale identifiers makes it possible to rapidly sw...
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keyb_event

The keybd_event function synthesizes a keystroke. The system can use such a synthesized keystroke to generate a WM_KEYUP or WM_KEYDOWN message. The keyboard driver’s interrupt handler calls the keybd_event function....
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GetKeyboardType

The GetKeyboardType function retrieves information about the current keyboard....
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GetKeyboardLayoutName

The GetKeyboardLayoutName function retrieves the name of the active keyboard layout....
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GetAsyncKeyState

The GetAsyncKeyState 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....
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BlockInput

The BlockInput function blocks keyboard and mouse input events from reaching applications....
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VirtualKeyCodes

The virtual key codes are values which reference one of the keys on the keyboard. Oddly, the three mouse buttons (left, middle, right) are also assigned virtual key codes. The letters A-Z and numbers 0-9 are assigned virtual key codes equal to their ASCII values. The keys 0-9 and the decimal point i...
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GetKeyState

GetKeyState returns the current status of one of the keys on the keyboard. This status contains two pieces of information: the key's toggle state and the key's pressed state. The information is put into the return value. The toggle state is analogous to the toggle nature of the Caps Lock, Num Lock, ...
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GetKeyboardState

GetKeyboardState reads the status of all of the keys on the keyboard and puts them into a 255-element byte array. Two pieces of information are recorded for each key: its toggle status and its pressed status. The &H01 bit of the array element is the pressed status: it is 1 if the key is currently be...
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