Hello Neil, First of all, if you have a recent Intel Mac laptop of any sort, there is no numlock key or embedded numpad natively associated with your computer's keyboard. If you're using an attached USB extended keyboard with numeric keypad in addition to the main keyboard region, then you don't press a numlock key to enter numbers with the numeric keypad. If you have attached a Windows keyboard, with embedded numpad, then the behavior of the keyboard on a Mac may depend on the specific model and its Mac compatibility. If you have attached a Mac compatible numeric keypad, you may be able to use the numeric keypad, but again, you don't turn a numlock key on or off.
If you want to use an embedded keypad for NumPad purposes with other software, then my guess is that your best option is to install KeyRemap4MacBook. This automatically gives you a working embedded NumPad on a Mac laptop keyboard if you press the "Fn" key together with the corresponding key on the right side of the keyboard, so if this is used for direction arrows, I'd guess that Fn+8 would move up, Fn+k would move down, Fn+u would move left, and Fn+o would move right, since those are the positions of the "8", "3", "4", and "6" key positions on the embedded numpad -- i.e., the positions above, below, to the left, and right of the central "5" key in the 3 by 3 grid of numbers. Since I don't use your mud client, and also don't know what attached hardware you are using with your Mac that gives you a numlock key, I can't give you any better answer. If you want to read more about KeyRemap4MacBook, you can read my archived post from August, which describes how to get and install and use KeyRemap4MacBook. • NumPad on laptop Macs and KeyRemap4Macbook http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg12382.html The quick answer is that if you install this software on your Mac laptop, you'll be able to use embedded NumPad functions on your Mac, and I suspect that the key presses will be treated like an embedded numeric keypad used in other software. For your information, pressing Fn+the embedded key on the right side of the keyboard is the alternative way we used to get Numpad behavior without having lock down the Numlock key on the old PowerBook G4 Mac laptops which did support embedded Numeric keypads. I'll add that if you want to use the keypad for 3rd party software you should not have NumPad Commander turned on in VoiceOver Utility. One of the nice features of this software is that not only can you get an embedded numeric keypad working on your laptop, but you can also get full access to the customized NumPad Commander VoiceOver key definitions if you want to -- something that only works for VoiceOver NumPad Commander definitions used without modifier key combinations if you use an attached Mac-compatible numeric keypad. One big difference in the latest release of KeyRemap4MacBook is that instead of preference panes under System Preferences, you should now just look for KeyRemap4MacBook in your applications directory to configure its options. And if you want more information about further using this application to set up the Caps Lock key as the VO-keys combination, you can look for Eric Caron's podcast instructions on how to do this at the AppleVis.com site. If this is not relevant to your question, please write back with specific information about your hardware configuration and what device you have connected that has a numlock key. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 1, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Harmony Neil wrote: > Quick question, since i can't find a lot if anything looking around the > internet in general. Can I turn the numlock on or off on the mac, and if so > could someone tell me how? I've tried just pressing the numlock key or > pressing numlock with command, but no difference. I want to use the num pad > as a directional thing in tintin++, the mud client I'm using, but I can't do > it with the numlock on as the terminal doesn't make a distinction between the > numpad keys and those on the umbers row. > Thanks, > Harmony. <--- 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> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
