Hi Eric, I'll interleave my responses to your comments. > • This app is a great help to me. If I had only had this a few years ago > I probably would not have bothered buying full sized USB keyboards for my Mac > book. I now have full size keyboards on all my Macs. The reason for this is > the desire to have VO keys on both sides of the space bar and also because I > rely a lot on the keyboard commander. With this Key mapping app set up I > probably will stop bringing the extra keyboard with me when traveling.
Glad to hear you find this useful. I found out about KeyRemap4Macbook about two years ago, but didn't take note of the default NumPad setup until earlier this year. The ability to use all the NumPad Commander definitions with modifier keys in this mode is what really sparked my interest. There are actually iPhone NumPad apps that let you use your phone as an external NumPad through Wi-Fi and which will support modifier keys in NumPad Commander, but stability of performance is an issue -- at the present time there's too much tendency to repeat keys and either lag or stutter to use this with any reliability, though it has worked at times in the past. > • I do have one question. I looked at the Caps lock area because I would > have loved to be able to map the caps lock to serve as VO keys. It talks > there about caps lock being a special key and gives some directions that seem > to imply it might be possible to do this. But this is not clear to me as it > talks about using a PC hak and gives a web site. > If it is possible to remap the caps lock using this app I would love to do > so. I've seen many other mac users asking for this as well. > > If anyone figures out how to do this or if it is possible using this app > please share your findings. > > In my case I have enabled the num pad and changed the right command key to > left control. Currently only active on my internal keyboard. > > If Caps lock is possible to use as VO keys, I will use that and put my right > command back to command. I'll then activate this for all keyboards. > > If this is possible I will use the app a lot so will quickly donate! > > Thanks for any info on my caps lock question! The caps lock key behavior on the Mac was changed about the same time the embedded NumPad was removed. Unlike all other keys, the caps lock has a slight delay before it takes effect. This is the source of the difficulties in remapping the insert key to caps lock in VMWare Fusion after that change. It's also why KR4MB refers to a PC layout to get caps lock remapping working. I'm not sure how to achieve this. And will not be able to check for at least a week due to travel. > > By the way, I think donating to these developers, who create apps we use is a > good thing. I was pleasantly surprised when Carbon Copy Cloner became a paid > app that I did not need to pay. Apparently because I donated I was > grandfathered in and not asked to pay another fee. It seemed like a small > example of doing something nice and having something nice come back to me as > a result. > > > Eric Caron Agreed. Some donation ware software has proved extremely useful and well worth subsidizing. Cheers, Esther <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
