[wxruby-users] How can I find out the state of capslock?

[Alex Fenton]

Hi Ross

Ross Goodell wrote:
> Although I can use KeyEvent#shift_down to find out if the shift key was
> held down when a key is pressed, I don't know how to find out if the
> capslock key is in effect (the capslock key was pressed the capslock LED
> is on, and other programs are treating an 'a' keypress as an 'A').  I
> could catch capslock keypresses by checking evt.get_key_code for 311,
> but don't know what the starting capslock state is since it might have
> been set when the user was in another program.  Can someone tell me how
> to find out what what the capslock state is?
Wx::get_key_state(Wx::K_CAPITAL)

Wx::get_key_state is a global method that returns true/false depending 
on whether the key with the specified code is currently depressed. 
Specially, for the toggle "lock" keys num / caps / scroll (whose integer 
key codes are Wx::K_NUMLOCK, Wx::K_CAPITAL and Wx::K_SCROLL) it instead 
returns true if the relevant lock is currently on.

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