Hello Esther and others,
I have written to the developer and the answer implies that it may be
possible to have the caps lock act as the VO keys. I have not yet successfully
followed all the directions but am getting close. Once I get it re mapped I
can test it out.
Fixing the delay in the caps lock behavior is mentioned. As part of the
solution I needed to change the caps lock behavior in system preferences,
Keyboard to no action.
My current problem is that I can't figure out how to download and install a
needed specially built xml file. I'm very hopefull that I will eventually find
this works.
I'm so glad Esther brought this app to our attention. I suspect it's uses will
continue to be discovered.
Eric Caron
On Aug 24, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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