Windows 3.1 Device Drivers (ddag31qh.hlp) (Table of Contents; Topic list)
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Keyboard Drivers
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The Microsoft Windows keyboard driver processes all keyboard input for
Windows and Windows applications. It directly accesses the keyboard
hardware, yet provides hardware-independent keyboard input by translating
scan codes to virtual-key codes.
 
The following topics provide useful information about the keyboard driver:
 
About the Keyboard Driver
Initializing the Driver
Enabling and Disabling the Driver
Keyboard-Interrupt Handler
Keyboard-Event Callback Function
Initialization File Entries for Keyboard
Translations
Virtual-Key Codes
ANSI Characters
OEM Characters
Scan Codes
Miscellaneous Keyboard Services
Keyboard Functions and Structures