Comment 1 by mdcurran on 2010-02-13 10:07
I assume this was a problem even before the rewrite today?

In Windows 7 I do get layout changes.
But in Vista and XP I don't remember getting them.

I think simply the reason is that in these Operating Systems, getMessage / callwndproc hooks are never fired for console windows as it seems you can not inject in to these windows at all.

At this point in time I can't think of how to fix it, with out coming up with another way of detecting the change in general.

Also, how ever we do do it, it still must be in-process as getKeyboardLayoutName does not take a thread identifier, it only works on the current thread.

Perhaps there is a way to ask the console for its current keyboard layout, via the console API functions. If so, then we probably could just check if it changes on each key press in keyboardHandler.

Comment 2 by nvdakor on 2014-07-25 13:23
Hi,
I can confirm that NVDA does announce keyboard language/layout changes in Windows 8.x while using command prompt.
Thanks.

This works for me in Windows 10. It seems both @michaelDCurran and @josephsl reported a works for me as well, so I assume it's safe to close this.

This is probably only relevant to XP and Vista, both of which are now end-of-life. Closing.