Find out when keyboard layout is changed

Question

I am writing an onscreen keyboard and would like to redraw my layout as soon as keyboard layout is changed.

Currently I call:

GetKeyboardLayout(GetWi         


        

Answer 1

It looks like the keyboard layout is stored here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload

When I changed keyboard languages, the order of settings there changed.

So you could possibly monitor the registry entry. Here's one way:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/registrymonitor.aspx