On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 06:01 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: > I find that my OSX 10.2.3 Keycaps does not seem to be working > normally, though it used to. When I hold down Option or Shift the > keyboard display does not change though the correct modified > character shows in the window. > Has anyone else had this? How do I fix it, like reinstall Keycaps as > I would in OS9. > Severin Crisp >
Unfortunately, MacOS X Installers up to now have not offered Custom Install options. It's been all or nothing, so you're left with not much more than re-installing MacOS X from your original CD, just to get a clean copy of Keycaps. You do have a few other options - 1. Download a copy of Pacifist. This is a program similar to (Classic) MacOS' Tome Viewer, in that it will let you look inside an Installer package and extract just the items you want. See if you can extract the Keycaps app from the Installer package on the original MacOS X CD. I have not used this for any real purpose, so I cannot offer any advice except USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. 2. Ignore the problem and be happy with the fact that your keyboard modifiers are working anyway (do do know, of course, that Keycaps does not need to be running in order for them to work - it's just a helpmate to show you what the key combinations are) 3. Ignore the problem and activate the Character Palette (System Preferences -> International -> Input Menu Tab -> Click on Character palette). It's more useful that Keycaps in many ways, giving you access to the full Unicode character set. 4. Ignore the problem and wait for the next system update, seeing that everything else is working OK anyway. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, :::::::::::::::::::::::: Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
