This includes the usual 0-9, a-z, Insert, Delete, Home, Esc, F1 etc. Here are the modifiers:Įverything that are not Modifiers are ‘Keys’. If no modifiers are pressed, all bits are zero. You can have more than one modifier pressed at the same time, like LCTRL-LSHIFT. And later to release it, you would set bit zero to 0. So if you wanted to press the Left Control Key, you would set bit zero to 1. There are eight modifiers, and each modifier represents a bit array contained in a single byte.

ModifiersĪ modifier modifies how a Key is used.

Here we have sent ‘Hello’ from the Keyboard Sender utility to the Keyboard Reader utility. Be sure to press the ‘Connect to Keyboard Driver’ before sending data to the driver. The keyboard driver will appear to Windows as if it is an actual physical keyboard. Use the SDK Keyboard Driver Sender to keys and modifiers to the keyboard driver. The OS will determine whether to put the text into the textbox in this app (it will if it is the active app). It’s just a simple textbox to receive the text from the driver. The keyboard reader doesn’t actually connect to the driver. This is easier than using Notepad or Wordpad or a game since the reader has a simple known name that you will need to search for to make the app active before sending keystrokes to it. While developing code that uses the keyboard driver, use the reader utility to consume data from the keyboard driver.

They keyboard driver is much more complicated. If this is your first attempt at sending data to the drivers, we suggest you try the mouse driver first to get the idea of how it works. The OS will apply the keystrokes to the active application. The driver appears equivalent to the OS as a physical keyboard. Press and release any regular keys keys plus any eight modifier keys to the driver.

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