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Keyboard driver structure
Source position: keybrdh.inc line 130
type TKeyboardDriver = record  | 
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InitDriver: procedure;  | 
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Handler called when initializing keyboard driver  | 
DoneDriver: procedure;  | 
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Handler called when unloading keyboard driver  | 
GetKeyEvent: function: TKeyEvent;  | 
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Blocking handler called when a key event is requested  | 
PollKeyEvent: function: TKeyEvent;  | 
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Non blocking handler when checking for presence of a key event  | 
GetShiftState: function: Byte;  | 
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Handler called to request the current shift state  | 
TranslateKeyEvent: function(  | 
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Translate key event to a suitable ASCII representation  | 
KeyEvent: TKeyEvent  | 
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):TKeyEvent;  | 
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TranslateKeyEventUniCode: function(  | 
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Translate key event to a suitable Unicode representation  | 
KeyEvent: TKeyEvent  | 
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):TKeyEvent;  | 
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end;  | 
The TKeyboardDriver record can be used to install a custom keyboard driver with the SetKeyboardDriver function.
The various fields correspond to the different functions of the keyboard unit interface. For more information about this record see kbddriver
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Set a new keyboard driver.  | 
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Writing a keyboard driver  |