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Re: numlock
- From: "Thomas Chadwick" <j_tetazoo at hotmail dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:59:22 -0400
- Subject: Re: numlock
- Bcc:
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
From: "J S" <vervoom@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: numlock
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:36:37 +0000
[snip]
Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately our users' boxes are locked down
(they're on XP) so they wouldn't be able to edit that file. I was really
looking for a way to do this from the XFree startup script or configuration
anyway.
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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