Switch Keyboard Layout to Regional Language

Author: admin | Category: Tips and Tricks, Windows API

//This is delphi tips and trick how we can switch keyboard layout to our regional language.
//For this example we need to place Button1 (TButton) and Memo1 (TMemo) to the form painter
//Then use this code
//Run the application, click button1 then try to write anything on Memo1
 
unit Unit1;
 
interface
 
uses
  Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
  Dialogs, StdCtrls;
 
type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
    Memo1: TMemo;
    Button1: TButton;
    procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
  private
    { Private declarations }
  public
    { Public declarations }
  end;
 
var
  Form1: TForm1;
 
implementation
 
{$R *.dfm}
 
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  LoadKeyboardLayout('00000419',KLF_ACTIVATE)
  //'00000419' is pcKeyboard parameter values for russian
end;
 
end.
 
{pcKeyboard parameter values for regional language
    '00000409' - english
    '00000419' - rusian
    '00000422' - ukrainan
    '00000407' - germain
    '0000040C' - french
    '00000410' - italian
    '00000416' - portuguese
    '0000040A' - spanish
   }
 

Tags: Keyboard