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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 12:05:38 +0200
From: Henry Story <email@hidden>
Subject: Netbeans 4.0 beta and french keyboard
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Hi,
I have a french keyboard on my Apple laptop (17", 1GB RAM), and cannot
get Netbeans 4 to display the '{' or '}' character. These characters
are generated by pressing the alt-( and alt-) key combinations. I had
this exact same problem with an early release of IntelliJ. They fixed
it after I pointed out the problem to them.
Good for you, but bad for the developers that sell this kind of software.
RTFM for God sake !
Falling into these traps in 2004, 20 years after Macintosh 128 ! Its like
ignoring that Modem speed can be higher than 300 bauds :(
A standard developer have to provide a product which can be used globally, not
only on our domestic market.
The worst thing I ever heard lately is when these guys (the people that sell
products to the domestic market) talk about overseas market !
Remember: overseas market can be as higher as 50% of your sales...
(now you realize how important is to develop a product that can be used globally
(by many countries around the world).
It's a little difficult to work with java without those characters :-/
No, just use Option-( for '{' or Option-) for '}'.
Nota: Option key (also notede 'alt') on a Macintosh is what Windows people call Alt.
Henry, RTFM ! the key you do not know what it is is called the Enter key. Watch
carefully the keyboard entry of the manual and you will discover plenty other
keys (dead keys for example, 'fn' modifier key for the laptop computers etc).
I have to say that my (other) laptop, a Pentium IV, does not have an Enter key.
Also - some people told me that - it seems that the Enter key behave the same as
the Return key on Windows (funny, isn't it ?).
The next question will be something like:
"I used key code x and instead of getting the 'm' or 'M' character, I get ',' or
'?'"
"Why this computer is working so strangely ?"
Cheers,
Emile
PS: I do not really have started to program using Java because it takes times to
Read That F...g Manual (many manuals in that case). So, I am still trying to get
time here and there to read the manuals.
Last PS: I live in France, Europe, one of the so-called "Overseas Market" :(
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