Re: Key scan codes in API (DLL calls)

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From: Ed Bogart
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:00

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Anthony Benavidez wrote:

> I'm currently a certified TracerX programmer and am just finishing up my VB
> certification. I'm trying to write an application that looks for key scan
> codes, in VB, that I will execute from TracerX.
>
> I've tried using API and have found a an entry call GetKeyState. This is
> probably what I'm looking for, however, I can find no documentation on the
> data strings this call expects to receive, nor have I been able to find out
> what the return codes are. I assume that when I find the correct data to
> post to this function, it will return an ASCII value for the depressed key.
>

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I can't help you at all but this brings up a problem that I have. Where do you
find documentation of any DLL? I thought that the point of DLLs was that there
was to be some repository of information about all DLLs so that they could be
used by anyone. Is this just another case of MS blowing smoke or have I missed
something important?

Ed Bogart

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From: Ed Bogart <e.h.bogart@larc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Key scan codes in API (DLL calls)
Date: 2000/07/28
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