Thread: need help with getkeystate

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    need help with getkeystate

    hi i need help, I have no idea what the problem is, what im trying to do is simply make a console application that will capture any key I type. Problem is I want to make sure whether it's a capital key or no etc so first I check if the caps is on using if (GetKeyState(20)<0) and then i check if shift key is pressed with if (GetKeyState(VK_Shift)<0) (cuz if it is then it would make it a small letter) and then I try to save the key as a small letter obviously. I do it for all the possible combinations etc( so 4 in total), but it always turns out one of them doesn't work properly, either it doesnt capture any key from a to z or just outputs it as a capital letter when it should be the other way around and vice versa. And then if I try to fix that so just play around, like change either the < sign to >= etc or change the value from 0 to 1 or put ! infront of GeyKeyState I manage to fix that one but then some other comparison etc is not working correctly. I'm stuck on this for hours, so hope someone can help me on this thanks.

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    You might have better luck catching keystrokes without a console.
    Either way, let's see some code, inputs, and the output.
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    never mind, i've managed to find a way to make it work but i had to spend a lot of time on it.

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