Virtual Key Codes: Same across ALL PC's

On different Windows OS's & on versions of windows that are running different langauges(keyboards, encoding etc.) are the virt开发者_开发百科ual key codes always the same?

So from looking at MSDN I can see that VK_RETURN = 0x0D. Will the Return key always have this value regardless of what version of windows or language or etc.?

MSDN Virtual Key Codes: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd375731(v=vs.85).aspx

Yes, this is the point of having virtual keys in the first place. There are a whole heckofalot of complications to turn a virtual key into a real key, WM_CHAR. That's keyboard layout nightmare. You don't have to fear VK_RETURN, that one is in the usual place.

Yes, it will.

Otherwise, it would break backwards compatibility, and your software would have to be recompiled for each version of Windows.