Change keyboard layout (Windows)

welle has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Folks

I am looking for a programmatical perl solution to automatically change the Windows's keyboard layout. What I mean is to switch from the Windows keyboard layouts (DE-EN-IT...etc). I have a small TK application with two text widget. If a user uses two different languages, let's say english and russian, one for each widget, it would be nice that the layout would automatically change.

Can someone point me to the right direction? Unfortunatelly I didn't found any information on this topic. Thanks

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Re: Change keyboard layout (Windows) by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 20, 2011 at 08:16 UTC
If I were in your position, I'd first search on how that's done generally, in any programming language. For example windows api for switching keyboard layout turns up this one, and lots of other posts. Then I'd look for ways to access the windows API from Perl, for example Win32::API and Win32::OLE, and see if any of them can be used for that task. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]
Re: Change keyboard layout (Windows) by Anonymous Monk on Sep 20, 2011 at 08:12 UTC
Can someone point me to the right direction? Unfortunatelly I didn't found any information on this topic. Thanks GIYF/JFGI/DUH win32 change keyboard layout	[reply]

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