Is it possible to...

[IceGothic]

Is there a way to switch on & off the numlock/scrolllock/capslock lights on the keyboard?

My situation is the following: I want my numlock light to shutdown when my computer goes to shutdown or standby mode and lit back up when the system restores or boot. I especially need it for the standby/restore modes.

I know there's events I can use in EG I could use for this but I don't see any action that allows to switch lights. I can't event simulate the NumLock KeyPress.

Anyone has an idea?

[Bartman]

Maybe this will work.
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/numlock/

[jinxdone]

Something like this? It checks the state of the three buttons and toggles them. (copy&paste into EG)

Code: Select all

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1194">
    <Folder Name="Keyboard states" Expanded="True">
        <Macro Name="Off" Expanded="True">
            <Action>
                EventGhost.PythonScript(u'from ctypes import WinDLL\nuser32 = WinDLL("user32")\neg.globals.keys = []\nif user32.GetKeyState(0x90) & 0x01:\n    eg.globals.keys.append(\'{NUMLOCK}\')\nif user32.GetKeyState(0x14) & 0x01:\n    eg.globals.keys.append(\'{CAPSLOCK}\')\nif user32.GetKeyState(0x91) & 0x01:\n    eg.globals.keys.append(\'{SCROLLLOCK}\')\neg.plugins.Window.SendKeys(\'\'.join(eg.globals.keys), False)')
            </Action>
        </Macro>
        <Macro Name="Back on">
            <Action>
                EventGhost.PythonScript(u"eg.plugins.Window.SendKeys(''.join(eg.globals.keys), False)")
            </Action>
        </Macro>
    </Folder>
</EventGhost>

You should trigger the "Off" macro when you turn off your machine, and the "Back on" macro when you resume from hibernation. If you shut down EG then it needs some other place to store the keyboard states before shutdown. I figured the lights on the keyboard are not a problem if you'd actually power off your machine though.

-jinxdone

[IceGothic]

Awesome, that's exactly what I needed!

Thanx