>Does anyone out there know of a way to get the state of either of these 2 keys.
>
>I have a window that reacts differently depending is the Shift key is pressed. This works just fine unless the user:-
>1) releases the key in the window
>2) switches to another window where they press the key in anticipation then
>3) select the window that is looking for the Shift status
>
>there appears to be no way of knowing that they have the key pressed as they select the window.
>
>Anyone got a any thoughts?

#define VK_SHIFT          0x10
#define VK_CONTROL        0x11
#define VK_MENU           0x12

declare short GetKeyState in Win32API integer nVirtKey
if GetKeyState(VK_SHIFT)<0
 * Shift is down
endif

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