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- From: craigm@egnext1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Craig Markwardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: bug in SetKeyboardState?
- Message-ID: <CRAIGM.92Sep6225301@egnext1.SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 05:53:01 GMT
- References: <JKF.92Sep6090948@frisky.Franz.COM>
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- In-reply-to: jkf@Franz.COM's message of 6 Sep 92 17:09:48 GMT
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- In article <JKF.92Sep6090948@frisky.Franz.COM> jkf@Franz.COM (Sean Foderaro) writes:
- >
- >I've written a little program to switch the Caps Lock and Control keys
- >for Windows 3.1 (which I'll be posting shortly). I tried to port it
- >to NT without success. I've traced the bug down to the
- >SetKeyboardState function which seems to have no effect in NT.
- >Perhaps this is due to a misunderstanding on my part (or perhaps this
- >just isn't implemented yet on NT).
- >
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- I can't guarantee it, but I will bet that the security protections of
- Win NT do not allow one to mess with the global keyboard state.
-
- Craig
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