How can I call ActivateKeyboardLayout from 64bit Windows Vista using VBA

匿名 (未验证) 提交于 2019-12-03 01:38:01

问题:

Running VBA under XP I was able to call ActivateKeyboardLayout to switch my input language from English to another language. However, this no longer works under Vista64.

Any suggestions or workarounds?

The code that used to work under XP was similar to the following:

Private Declare Function ActivateKeyboardLayout Lib "user32" ( _     ByVal HKL As Long, ByVal flags As Integer) As Integer Const aklPUNJABI As Long = &H4460446 ActivateKeyboardLayout aklPUNJABI, 0 

There was a suggestion to try

Public Declare Function ActivateKeyboardLayout Lib "user32" ( _     ByVal nkl As IntPtr, ByVal Flags As uint) As Integer 

When I try this I get the error message:

Variable uses an Automation type not supported in Visual Basic

回答1:

Your declaration for the ActivateKeyboardLayout is actually incorrect. For 32-bit systems your code should be something like this:

Private Declare Function ActivateKeyboardLayout Lib "user32" (ByVal HKL As Long, _     ByVal flags As Long) As Long  Const aklPUNJABI As Long = &H4460446 Dim oldLayout as Long oldLayout = ActivateKeyboardLayout(aklPUNJABI, 0) If oldLayout = 0 Then    'Oops an error' Else    'Save old layout for later restore?' End If 

The 64-bitness of the operating system is a bit of a red herring in this case. Since you are running a VBA app it must be running as a 32-bit app regardless of OS. I suspect your problem may be that on your Vista system the Punjabi keyboard layout that you want is not loaded. ActivateKeyboardLayout will only work to activate a keyboard layout that is already loaded. For some reason the designers of this API felt that failure due to the keyboard layout not existing was not an error so the LastDllError is not set. You may want to look into using LoadKeyboardLayout for this type of situation.

EDIT: To double check that the keyboard layout you are trying to get is actually loaded you can use this:

Private Declare Function GetKeyboardLayoutList Lib "user32" (ByVal size As Long, _     ByRef layouts As Long) As Long  Dim numLayouts As Long Dim i As Long Dim layouts() As Long  numLayouts = GetKeyboardLayoutList(0, ByVal 0&) ReDim layouts(numLayouts - 1) GetKeyboardLayoutList numLayouts, layouts(0)  Dim msg As String msg = "Loaded keyboard layouts: " & vbCrLf & vbCrLf  For i = 0 To numLayouts - 1    msg = msg & Hex(layouts(i)) & vbCrLf Next  MsgBox msg 


回答2:

This is just a blind guess, but have you tried running your app as elevated administrator to see if it makes a difference? What's the error code / value of GetLastError?



回答3:

Did you try a .Net line (as in VB.Net script or those snippets) like:

InputLanguage.CurrentInputLanguage =      InputLanguage.FromCulture(New System.Globalization.CultureInfo("ar-EG")) 

InputLanguage should be supported for Vista64 with a .Net3.5

VB.Net code:

Public Sub ChangeInputLanguage(ByVal InputLang As InputLanguage)    If InputLanguage.InstalledInputLanguages.IndexOf(InputLang) = -1 Then         Throw New ArgumentOutOfRangeException()    End If     InputLanguage.CurrentInputLanguage = InputLang End Sub 


回答4:

For 64-bit portability you may need to use IntPtr. Can you give this a shot?

Public Declare Function ActivateKeyboardLayout Lib "user32" (ByVal nkl As IntPtr, ByVal Flags As uint) As Integer 


回答5:

In 64-bit editions of Office apps, VBA is indeed 64-bit. See Office 2010 documentation for details of the changes. For the example given in Stephen Martin's answer, you will need to change the code as follows to add the PtrSafe attribute and fixup the parameters that have a HKL type in the Win32 API:

Private Declare PtrSafe Function ActivateKeyboardLayout Lib "user32" (ByVal HKL As LongPtr, _     ByVal flags As Long) As LongPtr  Const aklPUNJABI As LongPtr = &H4460446 Dim oldLayout as LongPtr oldLayout = ActivateKeyboardLayout(aklPUNJABI, 0) If oldLayout = 0 Then    'Oops an error' Else    'Save old layout for later restore?' End If 

and

Private Declare PtrSafe Function GetKeyboardLayoutList Lib "user32" (ByVal size As Long, _     ByRef layouts As LongPtr) As Long  Dim numLayouts As Long Dim i As Long Dim layouts() As LongPtr  numLayouts = GetKeyboardLayoutList(0, ByVal 0&) ReDim layouts(numLayouts - 1) GetKeyboardLayoutList numLayouts, layouts(0)  Dim msg As String msg = "Loaded keyboard layouts: " & vbCrLf & vbCrLf  For i = 0 To numLayouts - 1    msg = msg & Hex(layouts(i)) & vbCrLf Next  MsgBox msg 


回答6:

The thing that everyone seems to overlook here is that you are working in VBA, not in .NET. IntPtr is a .NET type which represents an integer which is native to the platform. On a 32-bit platform it is 32 bits, on a 64 bit platform, it is 64 bits.

Given that an HKL is a typedef for a handle, which is a typedef for PVOID which is a typedef for VOID *, it's exactly what you need, if you were using .NET.

VBA doesn't have anything for 64-bit numbers, so you have to take a different approach.

On a 64-bit machine, you will have to do something like this:

Public Type HKL64     High As Long     Low As Long End Type  Private Declare Function ActivateKeyboardLayout Lib "user32" ( _     Byval HklHigh As Long, Byval HklLow As Long, _     ByVal flags As Integer) As HKL64 

This should allow you to pass a 64 bit value on the stack to the API function (across two variables). However, if you are going to use this code on 64 bit and 32 bit machines, you are going to have to make two declarations of the API and then determine which one to call.

Also, any other code in VBA that calls APIs that deal with pointers or handles will have to be changed appropriately to handle 64 bit input (not 32).

On a side note, the original declaration of ActivateKeyboardLayout is wrong, as it had a return type of Integer, which is a 16-bit value, while the API returns a type of HKL, which is 32 or 64 bits, depending on the platform.



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