InputLanguage Class
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in system.windows.forms.dll)
An input language is a culture/keyboard layout pair that determines how the physical keys on a keyboard map or plot to characters in a language. The input language is based on a Windows input locale identifier, such as that returned by the Platform SDK function, GetKeyboardLayout. The input locale identifier is also called a handle to a keyboard layout (HKL) value.
Use the static methods provided to find all installed mappings of the system and to change the input language for a thread or process. Call CurrentInputLanguage to get the current input language. Call DefaultInputLanguage for the default input language. Call InstalledInputLanguages to get all the installed languages in this system. After you have a list of all the installed languages, use CurrentInputLanguage to change the current input language to a different language.
The following code example gets a list of installed languages. The example requires that textBox1 has been instantiated and that textBox1.MultiLine has been set to true.
Public Sub GetLanguages() ' Gets the list of installed languages. Dim lang As InputLanguage For Each lang In InputLanguage.InstalledInputLanguages textBox1.Text &= lang.Culture.EnglishName & ControlChars.Cr Next lang End Sub 'GetLanguages
public void GetLanguages()
{
// Gets the list of installed languages.
IEnumerator objEnum = InputLanguage.get_InstalledInputLanguages().
GetEnumerator();
while (objEnum.MoveNext()) {
InputLanguage lang = (InputLanguage)objEnum.get_Current();
textBox1.set_Text(textBox1.get_Text() + lang.get_Culture().
get_EnglishName() + '\n');
}
} //GetLanguages
The next example sets the default input language as the current input language. The example requires that textBox1 has been instantiated and that textBox1.MultiLine has been set to true.
Public Sub SetNewCurrentLanguage() ' Gets the default, and current languages. Dim myDefaultLanguage As InputLanguage = InputLanguage.DefaultInputLanguage Dim myCurrentLanguage As InputLanguage = InputLanguage.CurrentInputLanguage textBox1.Text = "Current input language is: " & _ myCurrentLanguage.Culture.EnglishName & ControlChars.Cr textBox1.Text &= "Default input language is: " & _ myDefaultLanguage.Culture.EnglishName & ControlChars.Cr ' Changes the current input language to the default, and prints the new current language. InputLanguage.CurrentInputLanguage = myDefaultLanguage textBox1.Text &= "Current input language is now: " & _ myDefaultLanguage.Culture.EnglishName End Sub 'SetNewCurrentLanguage
public void SetNewCurrentLanguage()
{
// Gets the default, and current languages.
InputLanguage myDefaultLanguage =
InputLanguage.get_DefaultInputLanguage();
InputLanguage myCurrentLanguage =
InputLanguage.get_CurrentInputLanguage();
textBox1.set_Text("Current input language is: "
+ myCurrentLanguage.get_Culture().get_EnglishName() + '\n');
textBox1.set_Text(textBox1.get_Text() + "Default input language is: "
+ myDefaultLanguage.get_Culture().get_EnglishName() + '\n');
// Changes the current input language to the default,
// and prints the new current language.
InputLanguage.set_CurrentInputLanguage(myDefaultLanguage);
textBox1.set_Text(textBox1.get_Text()
+ "Current input language is now: "
+ myDefaultLanguage.get_Culture().get_EnglishName());
} //SetNewCurrentLanguage
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