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Does anybody know of a means to retrieve the user's current
keyboard layout, under DOS? In Windows, there are API functions
which convert key scan codes into virtual key codes and ASCII
values, and vice versa; but I did not find a corresponding DOS
function so far.
- Of course, calls to Interrupt 16h return both the scancode and
the ASCII character of a key pressed - but only if a key is
pressed. What I would like to do is to display on the screen a
drawing which correctly represents the user's keyboard,
indepently from the current country-specific layout. So I would
need to convert scancodes into ASCII characters without actually
a key being pressed. Is there a way to achieve this under DOS?
Hans Ruegg
keyboard layout, under DOS? In Windows, there are API functions
which convert key scan codes into virtual key codes and ASCII
values, and vice versa; but I did not find a corresponding DOS
function so far.
- Of course, calls to Interrupt 16h return both the scancode and
the ASCII character of a key pressed - but only if a key is
pressed. What I would like to do is to display on the screen a
drawing which correctly represents the user's keyboard,
indepently from the current country-specific layout. So I would
need to convert scancodes into ASCII characters without actually
a key being pressed. Is there a way to achieve this under DOS?
Hans Ruegg
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