numlock
J S
vervoom@hotmail.com
Tue Apr 20 13:27:00 GMT 2004
Could this code be added into the XFree build?
JS.
>
>OK. You asked for it. Below is a short C program which will check the
>state of the NumLock key and synthesize a keydown/keyup sequence of the
>NumLock key if it's down. Works on my box, which is Win2K, but I'm led to
>believe from the documentation that it should work with any 32-bit
>implementation of windows.
>
>To build it, copy-paste the following source into a file (e.g.
>"numlockoff.c") then run gcc on it (e.g. "gcc -o numlockoff numlockoff.c").
> Then add that to a convenient location on your client systems and add a
>call to it in your X startup script.
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
>#include <windows.h>
>
>int main()
>{
> INPUT pInput[2];
>
> if (GetKeyState(VK_NUMLOCK) == 1)
> {
> pInput[0].type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
> pInput[0].ki.wVk = VK_NUMLOCK;
> pInput[0].ki.wScan = 0;
> pInput[0].ki.dwFlags = 0; /* Nill for keydown */
> pInput[0].ki.time = 0;
> pInput[0].ki.dwExtraInfo = 0;
>
> pInput[1].type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
> pInput[1].ki.wVk = VK_NUMLOCK;
> pInput[1].ki.wScan = 0;
> pInput[1].ki.dwFlags = KEYEVENTF_KEYUP;
> pInput[1].ki.time = 0;
> pInput[1].ki.dwExtraInfo = 0;
>
> if (SendInput(2, pInput, sizeof(INPUT)) == 0)
> {
> fprintf(stderr, "Error: SendInput failed. NumLock was not
>turned off.\n");
> }
> }
>}
>
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