humphrey@castor.usc.edu (Steve Humphrey) (08/14/87)
Help!!! I am still trying to map my keyboard to dvorak. Here's the scoop: I've hacked all day on my Mac SE / System 4.0 to change the keyboard mapping, with no luck. Hacking at KCAP and KMAP was futile (as I expected, bombs on restart). However, KCHR seems to be a rather simply laid out "map" for normal/shifted/command/option/etc values of characters. I can change these without any problem (no bombs) but THIS DOESN'T CHANGE THE LAYOUT!!! Help from anyone would be much appreciated. This is making any sense!! Steve Humphrey p.s.: thanks to those who sent the Dvorak/Qwerty DA, but this doesn't work on the new system.
tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot) (08/14/87)
In article <4009@oberon.USC.EDU> humphrey@castor.usc.edu (Steve Humphrey) writes: >Help!!! I am still trying to map my keyboard to dvorak. Here's the >scoop: > >I've hacked all day on my Mac SE / System 4.0 to change the keyboard >mapping, with no luck. > >Hacking at KCAP and KMAP was futile (as I expected, bombs on restart). >However, KCHR seems to be a rather simply laid out "map" for >normal/shifted/command/option/etc values of characters. I can change >these without any problem (no bombs) but THIS DOESN'T CHANGE THE >LAYOUT!!! That's right. Both the Mac SE and Mac II have a copy of the KCHR resource in ROM. To get the system to accept your change you must: 1) Update to System 4.1 or later 2) Add KCHR 0 to the ROv# resource for your machine (630=SE, 376=II) (This may already be done for some systems) 3) Reboot Note that this is a quick and dirty way to get your keyboard to change. A much cleaner method will be described in a forthcoming technical note. _emt