DirectInput8 turns off my numlock

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by IO Fission November 30, 2000 12:15 AM

2 comments, last by IO Fission 23 years, 4 months ago

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November 30, 2000 12:15 AM

It''s really annoying. Since I''ve been using DInput8, everytime I run my program the numlock on my keyboard gets turned off. Too many times I''ve managed to accidentally turn on overwrite and overwritten something I didn''t want to. Does anybody know of a way to stop this, or at least switch it back to on after DInput has shut down? Thanx IO_FissionSig();

Sig? What's that?

SiCrane

11,840

November 30, 2000 06:10 AM

You can toggle the numlock key in WinNT by using the keybd_event() function, just specify VK_NUMLOCK as the virtual key code. In Win9x, you can use the SetKeyboardState() function, though first you should initialize the key array properly.

IO Fission

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November 30, 2000 11:51 PM

From MSDN docs: "Because the SetKeyboardState function alters the input state of the calling thread and not the global input state of the system, an application cannot use SetKeyboardState to set the num lock, caps lock, or scroll lock indicator lights on the keyboard."

I''m not game to try unless someone else already has.

IO_FissionSig();

Sig? What's that?

SiCrane

11,840

December 01, 2000 12:18 AM

It won''t toggle the lights but it will still toggle the lock state.