Determining state of CAPS LOCK and NUM LOCK

[David Williams]

All of the (client) forms that I have created over the last few years include
a status bar with the CAPS LOCK and NUM LOCK states shown on them. With
VB.NET, however, I can not find a way to query the state of these to set
them. Any clues?

[Patrick Steele [MVP]]

In article <3cac4aab$1@10.1.10.29> (from David Williams
<dwilliams@strohlsystems.com>),
>
> All of the (client) forms that I have created over the last few years include
> a status bar with the CAPS LOCK and NUM LOCK states shown on them. With
> VB.NET, however, I can not find a way to query the state of these to set
> them. Any clues?

There's nothing in the framework for that:

http://discuss.develop.com/archives/...DOTNET&P=83058

You'd have to PInvoke GetKeyState:

<DllImport("user32.dll")> _
Public Shared Function GetKeyState(VirtKey As Integer) As Integer
End Sub

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Patrick Steele
Microsoft .NET MVP