Detecting keys

Hi all. Does anyone of you know how can i detect if 'Caps Lock' and/or 'Num Lock' on the keyboard are on? Once i've detected it subsequent changes will be handled by a listener but i'm stuck on how to detect if those keys are active when i first run the application.
Suggerences or a concrete answer will be appreciated.
Thanks all.

Hi,
Check out this discussion thred.
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=304596
However the code in the thread is not supported by SUN.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Roopasri Vittal
Developer Technical Support
Sun Microsystems
http://sun.com/developers/support

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