Keyboard and Mouse Driver Registry Settings (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

If your keyboard driver does not use the default name Kbdmouse.dll, in Platform.reg, define the keybd_driver symbol to be the name of your keyboard driver. The following example sample shows how to define the name for your keyboard driver.

#define keybd_driver  "MyKeyboardDriver.dll"

The following registry key examples show keyboard driver registry settings.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\KEYBD]
    "DriverName"="kbdmouse.dll"
    "SysIntr"=dword:10
    "IoBase"=dword:60
    "IoLen"=dword:5
    "BusNumber"=dword:0
    "BusType"=dword:5
    "EnableWake"=dword:1

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\KEYBD]
    "CalVKey"=dword:0
    "ContLessVKey"=dword:0
    "ContMoreVKey"=dword:0
    "TaskManVKey"=dword:2E

These registry key examples are located in %_WINCEROOT%\public\common\oak\drivers\keybd\ps2_8042\8042keybd.reg and %_WINCEROOT%\public\common\oak\drivers\keybd\keybd.reg, respectively. These files are included in many of the Platform.reg files. If necessary, some values might be deleted and overwritten in Platform.reg.

The DriverName value specifies Kbdmouse.dll as the keyboard driver.

The Status registry value is combined with the keyboard enabled bits to produce the value returned by GetKeyboardStatus. The following registry key example shows the value to add to Project.reg globally to turn off the accelerator underscore (_) character in Platform Builder menus.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\KEYBD]
    "Status"=dword:0

The following table shows the additional values that the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\KEYBD\Status subkey can have.

The following registry key example shows the key clicks on a keyboard.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Volume]
    "Key"=dword:0

The following table shows the possible settings for the Key registry value.

See Also

Reference

Keyboard and Mouse Driver Reference