Show active Language

[wtfigo]

Hello to all.
does anyone know a widget that shows me the currently active language?
thank you.

[balala]

does anyone know a widget that shows me the currently active language?

What "active language" is? The language of Windows? Or something else?

[wtfigo]

input methods.
I have 3 languages set up on my keyboard.

[jsmorley]

I'm still not sure exactly what language value you are looking for, and Windows is full of them, but I think this should cover all the bases:

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1
OnRefreshAction=[!CommandMeasure MeasureCulture "Run"]

[MeasureCulture]
Measure=Plugin
Plugin=RunCommand
OutputType=ANSI
Program=PowerShell
Parameter=-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Get-Culture | Format-List -Property *
FinishAction=[!UpdateMeasure *][!UpdateMeter *][!Redraw]

[MeasureKeyboardLayoutId]
Measure=String
String=[MeasureCulture]
DynamicVariables=1
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="(?siU)^.*KeyboardLayoutId.*: (.*)\n.*$":"\1","#CRLF#":""

[MeasureName]
Measure=String
String=[MeasureCulture]
DynamicVariables=1
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="(?siU)^.*Name.*: (.*)\n.*$":"\1","#CRLF#":""

[MeasureDisplay]
Measure=String
String=[MeasureCulture]
DynamicVariables=1
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="(?siU)^.*DisplayName.*: (.*)\n.*$":"\1","#CRLF#":""

[MeasureTwoLetter]
Measure=String
String=[MeasureCulture]
DynamicVariables=1
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="(?siU)^.*TwoLetterISOLanguageName.*: (.*)\n.*$":"\1","#CRLF#":""

[MeasureThreeLetter]
Measure=String
String=[MeasureCulture]
DynamicVariables=1
RegExpSubstitute=1
Substitute="(?siU)^.*ThreeLetterISOLanguageName.*: (.*)\n.*$":"\1","#CRLF#":""

[MeterMyLanguage]
Meter=String
MeasureName=MeasureKeyboardLayoutId
MeasureName2=MeasureName
MeasureName3=MeasureDisplay
MeasureName4=MeasureTwoLetter
MeasureName5=MeasureThreeLetter
FontSize=11
FontWeight=400
FontColor=255,255,255,255
SolidColor=47,47,47,255
Padding=5,5,5,5
AntiAlias=1
Text=KeyBoard ID: %1#CRLF#Locale Name: %2#CRLF#Display Name: %3#CRLF#Two Letter Code: %4#CRLF#Three Letter Code: %5

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-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass Get-Culture | Format-List -Property *

PowerShell will return something like this:

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Parent                         : en
LCID                           : 1033
KeyboardLayoutId               : 1033
Name                           : en-US
IetfLanguageTag                : en-US
DisplayName                    : English (United States)
NativeName                     : English (United States)
EnglishName                    : English (United States)
TwoLetterISOLanguageName       : en
ThreeLetterISOLanguageName     : eng
ThreeLetterWindowsLanguageName : ENU
CompareInfo                    : CompareInfo - en-US
TextInfo                       : TextInfo - en-US
IsNeutralCulture               : False
CultureTypes                   : SpecificCultures, InstalledWin32Cultures, FrameworkCultures
NumberFormat                   : System.Globalization.NumberFormatInfo
DateTimeFormat                 : System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo
Calendar                       : System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar
OptionalCalendars              : {System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar, System.Globalization.GregorianCalendar}
UseUserOverride                : True
IsReadOnly                     : False

[balala]

I'm still not sure exactly what language value you are looking for, and Windows is full of them,

I suppose wtfigo want to know the keyboard input language (there might be a better term for this), which is set near the clock in taskbar. This one:

Lang.png

[wtfigo]

Hi.
Thank you balala.
Yes that's exactly what I meant.
I have 3 screens, and the language icon shows on only one of them. And I use autohide so I thought I could use a widget to shorten the time I need to look for what is the set language at the current time.

[balala]

Yes that's exactly what I meant.

Unfortunately I don't know a way to achieve this. Maybe someon else?

[deflore08]

A necroposter here! There is no way to display tray and language bar for additional screens. Many people asking this feature since years but Microsoft still ignoring this fact.

[balala]

A necroposter here! There is no way to display tray and language bar for additional screens. Many people asking this feature since years but Microsoft still ignoring this fact.

What do you mean by "additional screens"?

[Active Colors]

A necroposter here! There is no way to display tray and language bar for additional screens. Many people asking this feature since years but Microsoft still ignoring this fact.

Kinda strange. The active input language is based per active window. For instance, if you open a browser and switch to a language B, when you focus on desktop it will be a language A. But Windows still can detect a current focused "window" and tell what is an active keyboard language right now anyhow.

All I know is that the taskhost.exe is related to the language bar and C:/Windows/system32/input.dll is related to the input.