[VBnet WMI] Win32_Keyboard: WMI Keyboard Information

	Visual Basic WMI System Services Win32_Keyboard: WMI Keyboard Information

Posted:	Tuesday March 26, 2002
Updated:	Monday November 28, 2011

Applies to:	VB5, VB6
Developed with:	VB6, Windows XP
OS restrictions:	Windows NT, 2000, XP. See Prerequisites below.
Author:	VBnet - Randy Birch

Related:	Win32_DesktopMonitor: WMI Desktop Monitor Info Win32_DisplayConfiguration: WMI Display Configuration Info Win32_VideoController: WMI Video Controller Info

Prerequisites

Windows Script Host is built into Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, ME and XP. If you are running Windows 95 or NT4, you can download Windows Script Host from the Microsoft Windows Script Technologies Web site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/. Some information is not returned on non-NT-based systems.

A reference set in Projects / References to the Microsoft WMI Scripting Library.

Win32_Keyboard class represents a keyboard installed on a Windows system.

This demo and illustration only show some of the available information from the class. For a complete listing see the table in the Comments section below. Note that some systems may not return information in all class properties.

BAS Module Code

None.

Form Code

To a form add a command button (Command1) and a listview (Listview1). Set a reference in Projects / References to the Microsoft WMI Scripting Library, and add the following to the form:

Option Explicit

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'listview column auto-resizing
Private Const LVM_FIRST As Long = &H1000
Private Const LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH As Long = (LVM_FIRST + 30)
Private Const LVSCW_AUTOSIZE As Long = -1
Private Const LVSCW_AUTOSIZE_USEHEADER As Long = -2

Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" _
   Alias "SendMessageA" _
  (ByVal hwnd As Long, _
   ByVal wMsg As Long, _
   ByVal wParam As Long, _
   lParam As Any) As Long


Private Sub Form_Load()

   With ListView1
      .ListItems.Clear
      .ColumnHeaders.Clear
      .View = lvwReport
      .Sorted = False
   End With
   
   Command1.Caption = "Keyboard Info"
   
End Sub


Private Sub Command1_Click()

   ListView1.ListItems.Clear
   Call wmiKeyboardInfo
   Call lvAutosizeControl(ListView1)
   
End Sub


Private Sub lvAutosizeControl(lv As ListView)

   Dim col2adjust As Long

  'Size each column based on the maximum of
  'wither the ColumnHeader text width, or,
  'if the items below it are wider, the
  'widest list item in the column
   lv.Visible = False
   For col2adjust = 0 To lv.ColumnHeaders.Count - 1
   
      Call SendMessage(lv.hwnd, _
                       LVM_SETCOLUMNWIDTH, _
                       col2adjust, _
                       ByVal LVSCW_AUTOSIZE_USEHEADER)

   Next
   lv.Visible = True
   
End Sub


Private Sub wmiKeyboardInfo()

   Dim wmiObjSet  As SWbemObjectSet
   Dim obj        As SWbemObject
   Dim thiscol    As Long
   Dim itmx       As ListItem

   On Local Error Resume Next
   
  'add first column and set initial parameters
   With ListView1
      .ListItems.Clear
      .View = lvwReport
      .Sorted = False
      .ColumnHeaders.Clear
      .ColumnHeaders.Add , , "WMI Property"
      .ColumnHeaders.Add , , "Value"
      .ListItems.Add , , "Description"
      .ListItems.Add , , "Name"
      .ListItems.Add , , "Caption"
      .ListItems.Add , , "Status"
      .ListItems.Add , , "Availability"
      .ListItems.Add , , "Layout"
      .ListItems.Add , , "NumberOfFunctionKeys"
      .ListItems.Add , , "DeviceID"
      .ListItems.Add , , "PNPDeviceID"
   End With

   Set wmiObjSet = GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}"). _
                                        InstancesOf("Win32_Keyboard")
       
  'fill in data
   For Each obj In wmiObjSet
   
      With ListView1
         
         thiscol = (.ColumnHeaders.Count - 1)
         
         .ListItems(1).SubItems(thiscol) = obj.Description
         .ListItems(2).SubItems(thiscol) = obj.Name
         .ListItems(3).SubItems(thiscol) = obj.Caption
         .ListItems(4).SubItems(thiscol) = obj.Status
         .ListItems(5).SubItems(thiscol) = IIf(obj.Availability, obj.Availability, "null")
         .ListItems(6).SubItems(thiscol) = obj.Layout
         .ListItems(7).SubItems(thiscol) = obj.NumberOfFunctionKeys
         .ListItems(8).SubItems(thiscol) = obj.DeviceID
         .ListItems(9).SubItems(thiscol) = obj.PNPDeviceID

         
      End With
      
   Next
   
End Sub

Comments

All information returned in the Win32_Keyboard class (note that some systems may not return information in all class properties):

uint16	Availability
string	Caption
uint32	ConfigManagerErrorCode
boolean	ConfigManagerUserConfig
string	CreationClassName
string	Description
string	DeviceID
boolean	ErrorCleared
string	ErrorDescription
datetime	InstallDate
boolean	IsLocked
uint32	LastErrorCode
string	Layout
string	Name
uint16	NumberOfFunctionKeys
uint16	Password
string	PNPDeviceID
uint16	PowerManagementCapabilities[]
boolean	PowerManagementSupported
string	Status
uint16	StatusInfo
string	SystemCreationClassName
string	SystemName

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