GetKeyboardLayout

This function retrieves the active keyboard layout for a specified thread.

At a Glance

Header file: Winuser.h
Windows CE versions: 2.10 and later

Syntax

HKL GetKeyboardLayout( DWORD dwThreadId );

Parameters

dwThreadId

[in] Set to NULL to get the keyboard layout of the active thread. No other value is supported.

Return Values

The keyboard layout handle for the thread indicates success. The low-order word contains a language identifier for the input language and the high-order word contains a device handle for the physical layout of the keyboard. For more information about language identifiers, see Language Identifiers and Locales.

See Also

HIWORD, LOWORD,