Is there any way of getting the virtual key code from char in C++?
c++, keycode
Solution
To turn my comment into an answer...
I think you want `VkKeyScanEx(...)`. This will turn a `TCHAR` into a virtual keycode and a set of keyboard modifiers that you should be able to use with `SendInput(...)`
Problem
Is there any way of getting this? I'm using the `INPUT` class to to simulate key presses, and when wanting to press the key in a variable of type `char`, I need to use the following method: ``` INPUT ip; ip.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD; //a bunch of code, and flags... ip.ki.wVk = toupper(foo); ``` ...where foo is of type `char`, and user-defined. This works fine, until the user inputs a character that's not a regular letter, which results in a completely different key being registered (which is understandable). That's why I'm asking if there's possibly a method that makes me able to get the hexadecimal key code from the variable's value? I know that I can make a big `switch(foo) case '1': //and so on...` to replace the unsupported characters with their corresponding key code, but really, that would mean a lot of unnecessary code. So, is there any way? Answer is highly appreciated, and if there aren't any, I'll go a head and solve it in a more complicated way. However, since this issue has occured for me several times by now, I figured that it might be good to know for reference.