How to get information about keyboard and mouse

[motivatedlad]

How can we get the information about the presence or status of mouse and keyboard in a computer? e.g mouse of " ABC" company is working

[motivatedlad]

Pals plz help me out and also provide examples
thanks

[Bond]

Use GetSystemMetrics().

If it returns zero when used with SM_CMOUSEBUTTONS or SM_MOUSEPRESENT, then no mouse is present.

Not sure about detecting a keyboard.

[RoyK]

I would try GetKeyboardType API. If it returns an unknown type, probably don't have a key board. I seem to recall that most computers don't boot with no keyboard but that may be bios specific.


see http://www.mentalis.org/apilist/GetKeyboardType.shtml for an example.