I have a muulti-language Access application that needs access to languages/keyboard layouts installed on the machine. I have certain fields that accept input in various languages. I would like to be able to change the active language/keyboard layout when these fields are entered and exited.
I’m sure that there is some sort of windows API for this but I haven’t been able to turn anything up. I would be happy for any code examples, links or anything that could get me pointed in the right direction.
You can change the active keyboard layout using the Keyboard Input Functions. The functions you should look at are:
You can find a list of Locale IDs on MSDN or download from here. You can get the currently installed locales using the EnumSystemLocales function. I can’t vouch for the quality of the code, but here are some examples of using these functions:
http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?code/locale/enumsystemlocales.htm
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=22694
http://www.ex-designz.net/apidetail.asp?api_id=499
http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?p=1313750