Hi,
I'm not sure whether Kimberly got her answer to how to get keys F9
through F12 for use in Fusion, but the issue is that the Mac makes a
default hardware assignment for these keys, with keys F9, F10, and F11
used as shortcuts for Exposé, and F12 used to bring up the dashboard
for widgets. I can't imagine any visually impaired user wanting to
use Exposé -- which is basically a visual analog to the window
switcher menus that we use where your entire desktop is turned into
various icon views of windows. You might use the F12 Dashboard
shortcut, but you could also just navigate to your dock (with VO-D or
Control-F3) and launch dashboard from there. You'll need to turn off
these Exposé and Dashboard key definitions in System Preferences --
either under keyboard shortcuts or Exposé and Spaces. For more
details, see this archived post:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg08197.html
(What is Exposé, and how to use its assigned keys in Fusion)
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Aug 30, 2010, at 16:23, Scott Granados wrote:
Great, thanks for the detailed explaination.
I'll give this a shot.
On Aug 30, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote:
Scott, I downloaded and installed Sharp Keys. in windows under
fusion don't have the link handy, but I got it by googling. Sharp
Keys has two lists with all the keys possibly on a keyboard
listed. You can move through all the controls with tab and shift
tab.
The first thing you do is find the add button. Enter or space on
this. The two lists will then be presented.
You arrow down the first list until you find the key you want to
map to the key you will arrow down and find in the next list. When
you have these chosen, press the OK button. You will then be
placed back in the dialog where your first selection will be
presented, along with the add button you previously used, a delete
button and a button that says something like save to registry. In
order to map another key, you press the add button and do the
mapping step again followed by OK. When you have finished mapping
all the keys you wish, press the save to registry button and you
will be prompted to restart your computer for these to take
effect. Here's a suggestion for mapping of keys that will cause
the accent key, left of number 1, to become your insert key and
will put your alt keys and windows key in the correct places on the
left. You will also have an applications key to the right of the
space bar. I can't remember whether it ends up being the one
closest to the space bar or the key further to the right. Below
are the mapping instructions Kawal posted here a couple of days
ago, which resulted in the above.
Here are my Sharpkes mappings
Grave (which is called the accent key in Sharp Keys) to Special
Caps Lock
Left Alt to Left Windows
Left Windows to Left Alt
Right Windows to Applications
On Aug 29, 2010, at 2:00 AM, Scott Granados wrote:
would you mind detailing how you did it?
On Aug 28, 2010, at 7:07 PM, Kimberly thurman wrote:
I finally got it. I used Sharp Keys and now have a Jaws key and
an applications key. Yea!!!! I still can't get F9 through F12.
Anybody have an idea about this?
On Aug 28, 2010, at 1:44 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
Hi Scott and all those who have problems with insert key with JFW.
I saved a post which helped me enormously and I hope that
Marshall will not mind me sending it. I just hope I got your
name right.
Kawal.
Begin forwarded message:
Hi,
Here are my Sharpkes mappings
Grave to Special Caps Lock
Left Alt to Left Windows
Left Windows to Left Alt
Right Windows to Applications
After I get these keys remapped I switch to the Laptop layout
in JAWS. This seems to solve the JAWS/Insert Key problem. It
also fixes the "reversal" of the Windows and Alt Keys. Note
that the Keypad layout on the Mac is different from the keypad
layout on a Windows machine. Things like the Route PC to JAWS
and Route JAWS to PC are in different locations on the Mac
keyboard but you can learn the new locations by using JAWS
keyboard help.
As far as the sound goes, I Launch the VIrtual Machine and
then turn off Voiceover. After I login to the Windows
machine, I press Control-Command to move to the Mac and turn
Voiceover back on. I then use Command-G to return to the
Windows machine. I can then switch back and forth by using
Control-Command and Command-G.
I hope this helps.
Marshall
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