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Keyboard driver structure
Source position: keybrdh.inc line 130
| type TKeyboardDriver = record | ||
| InitDriver: procedure; | 
 | Handler called when initializing keyboard driver | 
| DoneDriver: procedure; | 
 | Handler called when unloading keyboard driver | 
| GetKeyEvent: function: TKeyEvent; | 
 | Blocking handler called when a key event is requested | 
| PollKeyEvent: function: TKeyEvent; | 
 | Non blocking handler when checking for presence of a key event | 
| GetShiftState: function: Byte; | 
 | Handler called to request the current shift state | 
| TranslateKeyEvent: function( | 
 | Translate key event to a suitable ASCII representation | 
| KeyEvent: TKeyEvent | ||
| ):TKeyEvent; | ||
| TranslateKeyEventUniCode: function( | 
 | Translate key event to a suitable Unicode representation | 
| KeyEvent: TKeyEvent | ||
| ):TKeyEvent; | ||
| end; | 
The TKeyboardDriver record can be used to install a custom keyboard driver with the SetKeyboardDriver function.
The various fields correspond to the different functions of the keyboard unit interface. For more information about this record see kbddriver
| 
 | Set a new keyboard driver. | |
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 | Writing a keyboard driver |