HOWTO: How to Find the Available Keyboard Layouts Under Windows NT (139571)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Platform Software Development Kit (SDK) 1.0, when used with:
    • Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
    • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
    • Microsoft Windows 95
    • the operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000
This article was previously published under Q139571

SUMMARY

In some applications, you may want to find out what keyboard layouts are currently available under Windows NT, so that the application can present a list of the available keyboard layouts to the user.

The list of keyboard layouts that are currently available is in the registry: 

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "system\currentcontrolset\control\keyboard layouts"


You can use RegEnumKeyEx() to enumerate the subkeys (available keyboard layouts). The data value for each subkey is the file name for the keyboard layout.

MORE INFORMATION

The return value of LoadKeyboardLayout() tells you whether or not one particular keyboard layout is available. The return value is 0 when the keyboard layout is not available. However, LoadKeyboardLayout is not working correctly on Japanese Windows NT version 3.51. It returns 0 even when the requested keyboard layout is available.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:7/11/2005
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