Detect caps lock on?

[WWO]

I have seen minimousemacro.proboards.com/thread/283/keypress-inconsistent-behaviour

Is there a way to detect that caps lock is on?

[I have other (non-mmm) scripts that check for caps lock and sleeps for a second - gives the user an ability to 'pause' a script that uses the mouse, then unpause when ready. Looking to effect the same behaviour here in mmm. Yes, it must be caps lock - no sense making the user have to remember which key in which program they're in.]

^F9 doesn't do it, as the user has no way to know where in the script things are, to know where to return to. Caps Locks detection can wait for an innocuous spot (e.g. sleep point at end of a sequence of steps).

[Steve]

Hi WWO

Not easily and not without doing something like I suggested here minimousemacro.proboards.com/thread/283/keypress-inconsistent-behaviour

Sept 25, 2020 3:03:37 GMT Steve said:

Sept 24, 2020 21:30:36 GMT ak said:

Hi Steve,



On a related note: is there a way to check for or ideally toggle Caps Lock in a MMM script? To help programmatically avoid issues like danman mentioned? Because I've had Caps Lock adversely affect my scripts as well.

Hi,

Yeah this is what I've got to detect a caps and prompt. You could prob compress this down to a few lines:

1 | RUN ACTION | FILE CREATE | C:\Users\test\Desktop\caps.txt
2 | RUN ACTION | WAIT SECONDS | 1
3 | RUN ACTION | RUN PROGRAM | C:\Users\test\Desktop\caps.txt
4 | RUN ACTION | WAIT SECONDS | 1
5 | x | x | 500 | Keypress test
6 | X | X | 500 | Keypress Ctrl+ | a
7 | X | X | 500 | Keypress Ctrl+ | c
8 | X | X | 500 | Keypress Alt+ | f
9 | X | X | 500 | Keypress x
10 | X | X | 500 | Keypress n
11 | IF | CLIPBOARD | VALUE | TEXT IS | test | MESSAGE PROMPT | Caps is not on::CAPS - Status::0 | ELSE | 11 | RUN ACTION | MESSAGE PROMPT | Caps is on::CAPS - Status::0

This detects and toggles capslock:
1 | RUN ACTION | FILE CREATE | C:\Users\test\Desktop\caps.txt
2 | RUN ACTION | WAIT SECONDS | 1
3 | RUN ACTION | RUN PROGRAM | C:\Users\test\Desktop\caps.txt
4 | RUN ACTION | WAIT SECONDS | 1
5 | x | x | 500 | Keypress test
6 | X | X | 500 | Keypress Ctrl+ | a
7 | X | X | 500 | Keypress Ctrl+ | c
8 | X | X | 500 | Keypress Alt+ | f
9 | X | X | 500 | Keypress x
10 | X | X | 500 | Keypress n
11 | IF | STRING VARIABLE | %CLIPBOARD% | CONTAINS | test | GOTO MACRO LINE | Down 2
12 | X | X | 500 | Keypress capslock
13 | RUN ACTION | MESSAGE PROMPT | End of the macro::The End::1

[WWO]

Yeah, I saw that. Ick.

I did come across 
( _WinAPI_GetKeyState(0x14) & 0x01 ) = 0x01 ? True : Falsebut I haven't dug into it for a mmm equivalent.