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Any way to stick a keyboard layout to an apps?

Hi,
I have to keyboard layout installed on my Windows 7, FR and EN.

I use FR in Office in general and I also work a lot with unix server where I login using putty which I manually switch to EN everytime.

Is there a way (or an third party application) to make sure my keyboard layout is EN when I start PuTTY?

Thank you!

Dana Seaman

See Public Function SetKbLayout
Const LANG_EN_US As String = "00000409"
Sample usage for EN keyboard: SetKbLayout LANG_EN_US '

http://allapi.mentalis.org/apilist/LoadKeyboardLayout.shtml
http://allapi.mentalis.org/apilist/LoadKeyboardLayout.shtml#

jimyX

Let me check if I understood your requirement correctly, you need the active keyboard language to be En whenever you switch to PuTTY? If yes, then:
Generally there is no way, it has to be programmed in PuTTY itself to select certain language when it's activated.

Fenplast

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Danaseaman: What you suggest is to use a VB Script to set the keyboard layout, then call PuTTY?

JimyX: You did understand me well, When I start PuTTY, I change the language manually via the language bar, I just wonder if there is a way to automate that.

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