GetKeyboardState()

[SteveCRM]

can someone give me an example? mine never works?

i know i know you're all sick of me asking...but its due friday and I haven't gotten it to work yet

[transcendental]

I think you should forget about GetKeyboardState(). I couldn't get it working in either MFC or win32. It always fail and give me back a null pointer.

I would suggest you to use back GetAsyncKeyState().

I have attached a working code which uses GetAsyncKeyState(). This program can detect up to any 3 keys simultaneously.(VK_SPACE is to quit). Modify it to your needs or up to more than 3 keys (don't worry;very easy to do).

But I would suggest you use it this way. Eg, you want to detect 4 keys, A, B, C, D.

if(GetAsyncKeyState(0x41) & 0x8000)//==A key pressed
{
//Do what you want here
}
if(GetAsyncKeyState(0x42) & 0x8000)//==B key pressed
{
//Do what you want here
}
if(GetAsyncKeyState(0x43) & 0x8000)//==C key pressed
{
//Do what you want here
}
if(GetAsyncKeyState(0x44) & 0x8000)//==D key pressed
{
//Do what you want here
} 

To use my code, use appwizard to generate a Win32 hello world app. Name the project SteveWin32. then copy my cpp file there.

Note: I don't know if you can just compile it without doing all these.

[SteveCRM]

thanks so much for answering...but I have to use a console application...and in the console I've never gotten GetAsyncKeyState() to work for the keyboard (works for the mouse)...

thats why I was trying GetKeyboardState().

is there a way to make it work in a win32 console?

thanks

[CornedBee]

I think not, and under normal circumstances (that is when you want to write an app that does something useful, not a school project) you don't need it.