How do I turn on the Num Lock button? - Learn Java by Examples

The example below show you how to activate the Num Lock button programmatically. Setting the locking state to Boolean.TRUE will turn the Num Lock on.

package org.kodejava.awt;

import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

public class TurnNumLockOn {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Gets the default toolkit.
        Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();

        // Update the locking state for num lock button to true
        // will turn the num lock on.
        toolkit.setLockingKeyState(KeyEvent.VK_NUM_LOCK, Boolean.TRUE);
    }
}

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