I have an app with my own view. I handle all the keyboard input on
this
view, of course. I want to be able to use the dedicated insert/
delete keys
(above the arrows) for some things in my application. Delete is
working
fine. But when I press insert, I get a question mark cursor and
nothing in
my application.
There is no "insert" key on the Mac keyboard. That key is labeled
"Help" on a Mac keyboard. I'm not sure it'd be a good idea to re-
label the help key as insert as that'll only help those few people
who bought a Mac mini and attached a PC keyboard to it.
A) What does this cursor mean? I see that in some applications it
does that
(turns into a ? and does seemingly nothing), and in others it
brings up
help.
I vaguely remember that it's a special help mode that lets you
click on objects to bring up additional help, but I haven't yet found
an app that actually does anything in response to these "help clicks".
I think most apps that show help are probably Carbon apps. Showing
Apple Guide content (and later Apple HTML Help) was the default
behaviour for the Help key on OS 9.
