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Function name : GetKeyState

Group: Keyboard Input - Library: user32

The GetKeyState function retrieves the status of the specified virtual key. The status specifies whether the key is up, down, or toggled (on, off—alternating each time the key is pressed).

Code examples:

Reading the state of mouse buttons within DO WHILE loop

Declaration:

SHORT GetKeyState(
	int nVirtKey
);

FoxPro declaration:

DECLARE INTEGER GetKeyState IN user32;
	INTEGER vKey

Parameters:

nVirtKey [in] Specifies a virtual key.

If the desired virtual key is a letter or digit (A through Z, a through z, or 0 through 9), nVirtKey must be set to the ASCII value of that character. For other keys, it must be a virtual-key code.

Return value:

The return value specifies the status of the specified virtual key.

Comments:

The key status returned from this function changes as a thread reads key messages from its message queue. The status does not reflect the interrupt-level state associated with the hardware. Use the GetAsyncKeyState function to retrieve that information.

To retrieve state information for all the virtual keys, use the GetKeyboardState function.