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by mic159 3502 days ago
The numlock and capslock indicators can be used as confirmation signals coming back so it knows if it is working.
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Not really. By the time you make those signals provide feedback about your task rather than just whether Caps Lock is on, you'll have already accomplished your task and be into the part of the process where you're trying to download or compile some hack to use code to send something useful along Caps Lock signals. It's not a useful feedback mechanism when getting the feedback is an order of magnitude or two harder than the task you're trying to perform in the first place.