control-modifier-keys

control-modifier-keys

A NodeJS module to control modifier keys (scroll, num and capslock) on a windows device. This means you can read AND set the state of either Num Lock, Caps Lock or Scroll Lock. This module is also very suitable to be used in an Electron renderer process.

Motivation

While there are plenty of solutions to set these modifier keys with other packages, it is hard to read the state of these keys on-demand in NodeJS. Therefore, this simple package was created. We needed it for a custom hardware peripheral.

Installation

Simply add it to your project with npm install control-modifier-keys.

Usage

• Get the state of a modifier key (e.g. capslock) with getModifierState("capslock").
• Set the state of a modifier key (e.g. numlock) with setModifierState("numlock", true). Use the second boolean argument to enable or disable the key.

const cmk = require("control-modifier-keys");

// Turn on Scroll lock
cmk.setModifierState("scrolllock", true);

// Get the state of Caps lock
const capsLockState = cmk.getModifierState("capslock");

Example

To try it out, run npm run example in this repo. It will toggle all three modifier keys based on the state they're currently in.