Caps Lock Key

[outsider]

Good afternoon all you wonderful Slick Edit people.

is there any way of trapping whether the caps lock key is down?

I can see there is an on_scroll_lock() event in the docs but not for the lowly caps key.

[Graeme]

On Windows you could have a C function in a DLL to tell you

http://vcpptips.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/how-to-check-the-caps-lock-is-on-or-off/

Or you could call an external program using shell() which "calls you back" using something like vs.exe -r caps_lock_is_on

http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/30180-how-to-determine-if-CapsLock-is-on-crossplatform

[outsider]

Thanks Graeme,

It looks like there is no direct way of doing this so I think I'm going to have to check your indirect solutions out.

Thanks once again!

[Clark]

Graeme's suggested solutions are correct.

There is an _IsKeyDown function in Slick-C but currently it only supports VSEV_CTRL and VSEV_SHIFT. On Windows, it ends up calling GetAsyncKeyState which supports checking many more keys. It doesn't support more keys primarily due to concerns with portability. NumLock, CapsLock, and ScrollLock support would be nice though.