----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrius Astrauskas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [users] Making language follow current keyboard layout?
> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:17:27 +0100 > "Harold Fuchs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I though I could record a macro to change the locale and language and >> then assign a shortcut key to the macro. This would have provided an >> easy-to-use kludge for the problem described above: when the user >> changes keyboard layout he/she also hits the shortcut key to change >> Writer's view of the world. There would be one macro/shortcut-key per >> required language. >> >> I turned on the recorder and used the mouse to select the appropriate >> menu/sub-menu items. When I finished I clicked Stop Recording and >> saved my macro. When I looked at it with the editor there was almost >> nothing there; nothing useful anyway. And the macro certainly didn't >> do anything useful. >> >> I think I must have got the wrong end of some stick. Which stick, >> please? >> > > The stick: keyboard switching is OS function and not OOo, so no wonder > that OOo macro recorder doesn't record it. > <snip> I obviously didn't make myself clear. My idea was to provide a macro to change *only* what is changeable in OO. That is the OO's idea of the "locale" and the language. In OO 2.0.3 on Win XP/SP2 these are in Tools/Options/Language Settings. The user would then perform a *two* step operation: 1. Change the keyboard layout using whatever tools the OS provides 2. Change OO's locale and language, using a simple shortcut key, to match the keyboard. I was not even remotely suggesting that an OO macro could change the keyboard layout. However, trying to change these OO settings via a macro doesn't seem to work. My question was why? Anyone? Harold Fuchs London, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
