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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple Extended Keyboard
Message-ID: <1990Jan21.184721.3580@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 90 18:47:21 GMT
References: <2604.net.apple@pro-lep> <1990Jan16.043416.13432@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <1063@madnix.UUCP>
Reply-To: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
Organization: NCSU Computing Center
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In article <1063@madnix.UUCP> jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) writes:
>rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher) writes:
>>In article <2604.net.apple@pro-lep> bh@pro-lep.cts.com (Brian Hicks) writes:
>>> Does anybody have a driver for the Apple Extended Keyboard? My GS keyboard
>>No driver is needed, I use a Cutting Edge extended keyboard with no problems.
>>The help key mapping is not built into the system.  You can use the Beagle
>>desk accessory KeyMac to define those keys, or the one from Roger Wagner 
>>Publishing.
>
>	The function keys also don't do anything (well, not much). I don't
>know about KeyMac, but MacroMate (from RWP) requires an additional modifier
>key (either Command or Option) in order to activate the macros - this means
>that one can't activate a macro with a function key alone. It is possible to
>get around this, but I don't have the time to write the program to do it at
>the moment.
>

The KeyMac NDA from Beagle recognizes function keys just fine.  You can save
macros as sets for different programs.

It will let you put arrow keys, delete keys etc. into the macro.  I like to
use this for setting up in a programming language, for instance:

printf("|\n");

with the vertical bar being the cursor, after creating the word I can
use the back arrow key in the macro definition to move the cursor back to 
the correct spot to begin typing.  I heard that a guy in Israel even uses it
to type right to left in Hebrew.

Rick Fincher
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu