On 15/02/2006, at 7:18 AM, Paul wrote:
Hi all
I dont have a clue how to help this person, aside from suggesting
she use Help ;-)
Can anyone else offer a starting point or two?
In earlier versions of Mac OS (from the very first version, actually)
there was a little application called "Keycaps" under the Apple Menu.
In recent versions of Mac OS X this has evolved into an Input Palette
called Keyboard Viewer. The problem is that is is not turned on by
default.
To activate it, go to System Preferences > International. You will
see Keyboard Viewer listed in the various Input Palettes. Simply
click on its checkbox to activate it. You will then be able to call
it up from that annoying little flag icon in the menu bar (it had to
useful something, right?). In older versions of Mac OS X, you might
have to look in the /Applications/Utilities folder to find Keyboard
Viewer.
With Keyboard Viewer active (or Keycaps, for that matter - they both
work the same way) you can see what happens when you press certain
keyboard modifiers such as Option, Shift, etc, and combinations of
those. For example, you will see that when you hold down the Option
key, the character 'c' changes to ç.
Some characters have special highlights when the Option key is
pressed. For example, the letter 'e' changes to a simple Acute
accent. The highlight means that you have to press 'e' to get the
acute accent, then type it again to get é. Look for help specific to
Keyboard Viewer for more information.
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Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913
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