jdr93@campus.swarthmore.edu (09/06/90)
-Message-Text-Follows- First, I'd like to apologize if this is the wrong forum for this question. What I'd like to know is if it is possible to redefine the modifying keys (those that make the accents, for example) on the mac keyboard. I don't want to simply change the _look_; this is easy to do using ResEdit. What I want to do is to redefine them from `,e,u,i,etc. to 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Is this something changeable, or is this information locked into ROM? Thanks for your patience and indulgence with my question. Please reply by mail as I don't read this newsgroup often. ******************************************************************************* Joshua Rosenzweig, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081 jdr93@swat.swarthmore.edu, jdr93@swarthmr.bitnet *******************************************************************************
ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) (09/07/90)
>>>>> In article <6L1PHG6@cs.swarthmore.edu>, jdr93@campus.swarthmore.edu writes: > First, I'd like to apologize if this is the wrong forum for this question. Maybe comp.sys.mac.system? > What I'd like to know is if it is possible to redefine the modifying keys > (those that make the accents, for example) on the mac keyboard. I don't want The right terminology here is "dead keys": they are dead because nothing seems to happen when you press them. > do is to redefine them from `,e,u,i,etc. to 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Is this > something changeable, or is this information locked into ROM? This information is in a resource called KCHR (KeyboardCHaRacter) which you will find in the System file. Changing the KCHR used to be a very hard job because there were no TMPL for it. But with the release of ResEdit 1.2 it all was changed: It gives you a very userfriendly interface to change the keymapping. When your KCHR is open: just type the dead-key, a character chart window for this key will get up, and then choose "Remove dead key" from the KCHR-menu. /Olle