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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Redefining modifying keys on a Mac...
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Date: 6 Sep 90 17:42:09 GMT
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In-Reply-To: jdr93@campus.swarthmore.edu's message of 6 Sep 90 15:47:24 GMT

>>>>> 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