can't get current keyboard layout

Question

I have tried GetKeyboardLayoutName() and GetKeyboardLayout() for getting the current keyboard layout, but they both give me the default lay

Answer 1

The following code is simple and works fine. If you write a command line program, the GetKeyboardLayout API does't work in windows cmd or powershell, you can test it in babun(an open source windows shell).

#include 
int getInputMethod() {
  HWND hwnd = GetForegroundWindow();
  if (hwnd) {
    DWORD threadID = GetWindowThreadProcessId(hwnd, NULL);
    HKL currentLayout = GetKeyboardLayout(threadID);
    unsigned int x = (unsigned int)currentLayout & 0x0000FFFF;
    return ((int)x);
  }
  return 0;
}