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From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Suggestion for new feature in next GS system software
Message-ID: <37404@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 89 21:19:50 GMT
References: <8912191931.AA25577@apple.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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[stuff about mousing from the keyboard not quoted]

The ROM 03 GS has the capability to do this built into the new Keyboard
Microcontrol (Key Micro) chip.  By pressing the shift key five times in a row,
you activate "sticky keys".  This makes any modifier pressed active until a
non-modifier key is pressed, at which time the modifiers apply to it.  For
example, you can press and release Control, Command and Escape and get to the
CDA menu without holding down more than one key at a time.  (This also works
for Control-Open Apple-Reset, which is really weird.)

You can turn the keypad into a directional keyboard mouse by pressing Shift-
Command-Clear.  Then 5 is a click, 0 is a drag, and the keys around 5 move the
"mouse" in the direction implied by arrows moving out from the 5 key.

Although this could be used for macro capability, it would be really weird,
since the mouse would have to moved to a "home" position for the relative
offsets Keyboard Mouse gives to get to an absolute position.

It has already been suggested (and is being considered) to add these
"universal access" features to ROM 01 GS's.

Personally, I think Word's keypad menu scheme is bogus, annoying and counter-
intuitive.  I keep pressing keys on the keypad and having weird things happen,
and then I have to press "num lock" to get a "9" out of a key labeled "9".
I don't like it.

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