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From: "Paul Sanders" <paulsan@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.nt.kernel-mode,microsoft.public.win32.programmer.international,microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel
Subject: Re: keyboard-layout DLL problems
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:37:22 -0800
Organization: Microsoft
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It is a known bug.

Add the following to your sources file,

LINKER_FLAGS
= -merge:.edata=.data -merge:.rdata=.data -merge:.text=.data -section:.data,
re

-Paul

Erich Eichinger wrote in message <01bd1f8f$cc80cf20$39847092@atti39>...
>
>Problem:
>
>I compiled a new layout-dll with the NT-DDK build utility. Everything works
>fine, that means the keyboard's scan-codes are correctly dispatched into
>virtual key codes - but when displaying the keynames with GetKeyNameText()
>only rubbish is shown. I also tried to compile the samples that come with
>the DDK with the same result - translation from scancode to VK-code is done
>correctly, GetKeyNameText() delivers trash !
>Did I miss something ?
>
>--
>----------------------------------------------
>Erich Eichinger
>Dep.CA / Value Added Telecom Services
>Alcatel Austria AG
>Scheydgasse 41
>A-1210 Vienna / Austria
>EMail: erich.eichinger@aut.alcatel.at
>----------------------------------------------
>reality.sys corrupted - reboot universe (Y/N)?
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