Re: Querying presence of a keyboard


"Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]" <pbromberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message news:B2B836FC-D350-46B9-88EF-46BCF0DFA042@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Forgive me for sounding simplistic, but if there is no keyboard / mouse
attached to a machine running your program then how do you propose to get
user input?
The "sounds" like the classic joke,

"Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue."

Knowing there is no keyboard... might help prevent such paradoxes. A
timeout could be substituted.


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"Claire" wrote:

Hi,
Is there any way to query whether or not a keyboard is attached to a pc
please?
My software will be running on XP/Vista systems in an environment where
there may or may not be a keyboard/mouse attached to the system.

thank you





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