Keyboard and Mouse Driver Catalog Items (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

In Windows Embedded Compact, you can implement support for connecting a keyboard and mouse to a Windows Embedded Compact powered device, for users to use for providing user input to a Windows Embedded Compact powered device.

For more information, see Keyboard and Mouse Drivers.

For more information about how to add or remove catalog items, see Create Your First OS.

Hardware and Software Requirements

  • Requires a keyboard or mouse.

Catalog Items

The following table describes the catalog items you can use to add support for input device drivers to your OS. The default language is English; to change the language, change the locale.

Catalog item

BSP environment variable

Description

Dependencies

8042 PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse

BSP_KEYBD_8042

Provides the English keyboard and mouse driver.

None.

Layout Manager

None.

Provides compatibility support for keyboards that have different layouts, such as DVORAK and QUERTY keyboard layouts.

Requires BSP_KEYBD_8042.

See Also

Other Resources

Keyboard and Mouse Drivers
Keyboard Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables
Mouse Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables