Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!kiran From: kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: changing the keyboard layout in System 7 Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 13:15:15 GMT References: Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: na Organization: Indiana University Lines: 37 bruner@sp15.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Bruner) writes: >I'm trying to change the keyboard layout while one of my programs is >running. According to technical note 160, I can do this by putting >appropriate KCHR and SICN resources in my application's resource fork >and calling the Script Manager routines SetScript and KeyScript. >Alas, although it worked for me with System 6.0.7, this doesn't seem >to work with System 7. By trial and error I've discovered that I must >put the KCHR resource into the System file. Is this true -- the >technote is obsolete and the KCHR must be in the System file -- or am >I missing something? (I'll put it in the System file if necessary, but >I'd rather not.) So it isn't just me having trouble with this.... I had to remap the keys in my system keyboard when i upgraded to 7.0 ZTerm has two 'kchr's in it, which i suppose i was using with 6.0.7, but i needed to remap a key under 7.0 (^@, the emacs mark-setting key) Why? Is this a 'feature'? Does the new system want to prevent people from dragging a keyboard into the system file... finding it doesn't work in an app with it's own 'kchr'... and complaining "$#@&* buggy 7.0 won't use my new keyboard!" even though using the app's resources first is not a bug? Or is this an obscure 7.0 bug? If so, i'll claim it-- I found it on May 15 when i tried to check my mail after installing 7.0! -- ...kiran __________kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu________(812) 331-1710 From the corrections column in a July Fresno, CA _Bee_: "An item in Thursday's [issue] about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts 'back in the African-American.' The item should have said 'back in the black.'"