[ros-dev] about commit 25758 is wrong

[Thomas Weidenmueller]

magnus at itkonsult-olsen.com wrote:
> some example
> ZwQueryDefaultLocale is located in ntoskrnl  it call on  NtQueryDefaultLocale
> it is to get current keyboard name  file ntoskrnl/ex/locale.c

No it's not.

> in that file it exists all api to get and set the a keyboard.

locale != keyboard

> a keyboard are being loading either from user mode or kmode.
> in kmode it is loading by ntoskrnl or win32k depns on the case
> which keyboard that is active are set by ntoskrnl not win32k
> to get defult or current keyboard is the ntoskrnl jobb not win32k
> so on.

they keyboard may(!) be selected by win32k depending on the thread's locale

> we need using same api as windows and same prototype.
> even undocument thing. but what I provide is a start to use it.
> but not complete what I did give about NtUser* so change it to 7 param
> and use the protoype I gave u. use the x2 and x6 I put in, so we can change
> it to same as windows when we got more informations how it works. I do not have
> time to dig after any more doc about it.

I don't see a reason why NtUser* has to match since it's no publicly
documented interface any may be altered at any time.

> use the Zw* api when u call on ntoskrnl from win32k.

It can't be generalized, it depends on the context.

> and the keyboard work are split betwin user32.dll, win32k.sys, ntoskrnl.

They keyboard selection code is mainly a user32/win32k thing, ntoskrnl
isn't directly involved.

- Thomas