current Caps Lock state

Unity Engine
1

hello everyone!
I’m looking for a way to get the current capslock state, but didn’t have found anything that works :frowning:
any idea??

2

I don’t think thats possible in Unity I’m afraid, unless you write your own native plugin to get it.

What you can do is handle key-down events with KeyCode.CapsLock, but this will not pick up the actual state of the capslock if it changes outside your game.

class CapsLock : MonoBehaviour
{
    private bool m_CapsLock = false;
    void Update()
    {
        if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.CapsLock) 
        {
           m_CapsLock = !m_CapsLock;
        }
    }
}
3

no, this is a “fake way” and didn’t work if you are developing a password system for example, what I neet is a way to get the REAL caps lock status, propably I’ll need to develop my native plugin for that :-/

4

There is actually this that you might be able to use Control.IsKeyLocked(Keys) Method (System.Windows.Forms) | Microsoft Learn

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5

yes, I’m was reading this link right now xD I made my native plugin and it worked <3
BUT! I’ve contacted the guys from Unity too asking if there something for this inside the engine, if have I’ll post here, if not, I’ll create a nice plugin with some stuff and publish on asset store :slight_smile:

6

any news on this?

7

hey! yes! I had a hardware fail and lost it xD
I’ll try to recode it, and as it is a little more hard and may need some different code on each platform (and I didn’t have time for it right now), I’ll open the source on github…