Uh. I'm going to stop you right there. The HKL values are issued by
Microsoft and are done, I believe, on the understanding that no-one else is
creating keyboard layouts. I'd recommend you take advantage of someone
else's hard work and use Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator
(http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx) to generate your
layouts and use the MSI created by that application.
Further, I suggest that if you need different characters to be emitted when
the user types something in your application, that you use whatever
facilities your environment provides - for example, subclassing an edit
control and translating WM_CHAR before sending it to the edit control's
window procedure, or using the .NET Framework's KeyPreview feature - to
translate from the pressed key to the desired character. New keyboard
layouts are intended for global use and generally to correspond with actual
keyboard layouts on keyboards.
--
Mike Dimmick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Rivers
Sent: 13 December 2007 10:21
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Slightly advanced Registry...
Hi all.
I have a list of new keyboards that we ship with our product due to using a
different Character set.
the keyboard setup goes to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard
Layouts
the new key needs a Unique name, I'm currently (for UK) using d1000809, and
this is hard coded into my WIX installer. I'm sure this is the wrong way of
doing it, and I should be able to "look" at the keys there and pick
something that isn't used. (the last 3 or 4 chars must be 804 or 0809 for a
UK Keyboard as I understand it.)
Also, to automatically load install the keyboard to the users profile, I
need to look in HKCU\Keyboard Layout\Preload
in here is some Stings named with a number (1, 2, 3, etc...) and with the
value of the keyboard (in this case d1000809) but it appears if I hard code
then firstly i'm concerned that I'll overwrite a keyboard someone already
has defined, and secondly if there is a gap, EG(1, 2, 4) then number 4 won't
be seen. so I need a way of looking at what the latest is, and then add this
to the registry as appropriate.
This also gets more fun because in theory people will want 1 or maybe 2
keyboards, but in practice (if they don't really know what they're doing)
they could install up to around 25 additional keyboards.
is there a way I can do this?
Jason
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