The advantage of doing it Paul's way is that it doesn't matter how many VM Machines you have with Windows, you can always have an insert key that way paul says in his message below. One of the reasons why I only use VM preferences.
Kawal. On 9 Aug 2013, at 11:38 AM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sandy, > > Capslock is trickey to do under fusion, so let's just use the insert key. > Insert is normally not available on a mac keyboard. There is a key that you > could use as insert though, which is the accent key, on US keyboard just > below escape. To map the accent key to become the insert key as long as you > have windows on, do the following. > > Open fusion and make sure that all VM's are shut off. Then hit command comma, > to get into the preferences for fusion. From the toolbar, select keyboard and > mouse. You now see your current key mappings. Skip the profile bit. Just > leave that at default. Hit add, to add a new mapping. > > In the dialog that comes, VO over to the first combobox. This is where you > set your source key to be mapped, in your case accent. So, once on the > combobox, just hit accent and move on. You'll then find the to, field. Skip > all the checkboxes and stop on the next combobox. This is where you select > the key you want to happen, if you hit your accent key, so we must select > insert in here. If you hit VO space on the combobox, a list will pop up as > usual. Select insert, but do not hit VO space. What you have to do in little, > non-standard interface, is stop interacting till you can not go up any > further. This leaves the combobox alone, having insert selected. Now hit okay > and you have your insert key. Exit fusion preferences by hitting command w, > for close window. > > Fire up windows and NVDA, hold down accent, below escape, and hit n. If all > went well, the NVDA menu will pop up, because NVDA thinks it sees insert plus > n. If that does not happen, go back into fusion preferences and check your > mapping. If it was wrong, delete it and start over. > > Hth, > Paul. > On Aug 9, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse <sandi1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Paul, and first of all thank you for the tidbits, :) it is always >> wonderful to get help from others who knows more about a given >> situation than one might. >> What i have done so far, and it is not given it is the best thing, but >> more about that later on. >> Eventually i have a scanner, it won't run under mac, so i simply took >> a old xp cd, inserted it into the 12 core mac pro, installed windows >> on it and more or less have mapped the keys as you said, installed >> nvda and after that moved it allover via the usb key on the mac book >> air. Now of course i need to set the nvda keys up, but I'm confident >> i can do that on my own :) >> >> >> have a wonderful day >> >> >> sandi >> >> >> On 8/9/13, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Sandy and others interested, >>> >>> After you have fusion installed and you have a windows vm running, you can >>> go a few different ways. As it is by default with fusion and windows, the >>> command key next to the spacebar, is not the alt key as you would expect >>> from a windows keyboard. Instead, command is now the windows logo key, while >>> the mac option key is alt, in windows. You can choose to leave that as it >>> is, or you can swap the keys if you prefer so. You can do this in the global >>> preferences inside fusion, command comma, when all VMs are shut down. There >>> is a keyboard setup screen with multiple tab sheets there, available from >>> the toolbar. You'll find a listbox there, containing all current, default >>> key bindings. For example, the mac user does a command c to copy, while in >>> windows, you would do control c rather than command c. So, fusion, to make >>> the windows interface as intuitive as possible for the mac user, assigns >>> command c to be mapped to control c. In other words, in a windows virtual >>> machine, by default, command c does the same thing as control c. >>> >>> This is not always what you want. There are a few other keystrokes that can >>> get in your way, mapped inside this same screen, that you may want to get >>> rid of, depending on your preference. For instance, command h, by default in >>> windows fusion, maps to hide the current application, in this case fusion >>> itself, while alt h in windows, will simply open, or pull down, the help >>> menu for the current program. This is only true, if you swap the windows and >>> alt keys yourself, so that the windows keyboard feels more like a windows >>> one. When I was inside windows working happily away, I pressed alt h to open >>> the help, and suddenly speech went away. I later discovered, that fusion was >>> out of focus, and so I was in the mac system. After turning voiceover back >>> on, I could navigate back into windows, turn it off, and continue windowing. >>> so depending on your preference, you might want to do away with these key >>> bindings. >>> >>> Anyway, over 10 key combinations are here by default, and simply by >>> highlighting the key you don't want changed and hitting the remove button >>> next to the list box, you can get rid of them. >>> >>> In windows xp, you can start narrator in a few ways. You can type in its >>> name and have windows start that up. In this case, hit alt plus r, type >>> narrator, and hit enter. Or, you can start narrator by launching what is >>> called the utility manager in windows. This is a program for assistive >>> technologies, and if you run that, it also happens to invoke narrator. To >>> start narrator this way, simply hit windows logo, plus the u key, as in >>> utility manager. Be aware though, that you now have 2 programs open, the >>> utility manager and the narrator. If you then alt tab to the utility >>> manager, you can safely close it, without loosing speech, because narrator >>> is still running, and so you no longer need utility manager to be running, >>> because you only used it to invoke narrator. >>> >>> In windows 7, I found that the easiest way to get narrator to talk, is by >>> hitting alt plus r, typing narrator followed by enter. You can still use >>> utility manager, but I don't know its keystrokes. Once narrator is running, >>> you need a way to get NVDA or any screen reader of choice, to run in >>> windows. To do that, you could use a USB stick, but there's an easier >>> method. >>> >>> You can access your mac files, from within windows, using a service that >>> fusion gives you. >>> If, during the windows setup in fusion, you chose to set windows up more >>> seamless, as opposed to more isolated, then in seemless mode, there is an >>> icon on your desktop called vmware shared folders. Technically, this is a >>> virtual network connection, but in practice, this takes you into your mac >>> file system, and if you have NVDA downloaded there somewhere, then you can >>> easily install it. >>> >>> If you move to windows 7 from xp, which is wise in the near future given the >>> fact that security updates will no longer appear after april 14th 2014, then >>> if you install NVDA, it may seem to hang during the installation. This is in >>> fact not true, but what I had to find out about before being able to install >>> NVDA, is that on the screen, but in the background, there is a user access >>> control window, asking you if you really want to install a new peace of >>> software. UAC protects you from installing unintentional things, by popping >>> up a warning if windows sees that stuff is being installed, and that's all >>> fine and good, but not if you are not aware of this window appearing in the >>> background, while you are awaiting the finish of the NVDA installation. What >>> you can do is, simply alt tab to this UAC window, say yes, and immediately >>> NVDA goes on and installs. >>> >>> Hth, >>> Paul. >>> On Aug 8, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Sandi Jazmin Kruse <sandi1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> hi, eventually i have at long last got vmware up and run with windows, >>>> but can anyone tell me what do i do from there? getting narrator or >>>> nvda up and run would be a good thing, but how? all this done with vo, >>>> of course :) >>>> any help is mostly appreciated >>>> >>>> >>>> sandi >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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