Way to turn on keyboard's caps-lock light without actually turning on caps-lock?

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Published on 2010-02-11T22:44:33Z Indexed on 2010/03/22 14:01 UTC
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I'm writing a program that uses caps-lock as a toggle switch. It would be nice to set the LED of the key to show that my program is on or off, like the capslock key does naturally.

I know that I could just SendInput('Capslock'); or whatever to actually turn caps-lock on and off. But my app is a typing program, and I don't want to have to deal with translating the all-caps keys that turning it on would give me into their lower/upper cases. I might go that route eventually, but not for this version.

I would however be interested in just turning on the LED light WITHOUT actually turning on caps-lock. Is there any way to do that?

Thank you.

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