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

[Ross Goodell]

Alex Fenton wrote:
> 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.
> 
> a

Thanks Alex for replying so quickly.  It worked beautifully.

Ross
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