Re: Question Mark Cursor
Re: Question Mark Cursor
- Subject: Re: Question Mark Cursor
- From: Chris Williams <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:03:41 -0700
- Thread-topic: Question Mark Cursor
Sorry, using a different keyboard. Was unaware that Mac¹s had no ³insert².
My MacBook doesn¹t, of course, and my MacPro keyboard isn¹t the standard
one.
I¹m not interested in ³relabelling² a key. Just making the app as useful as
possible.
Thanks
On 10/19/07 2:59 PM, "Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Am 19.10.2007 um 23:46 schrieb Chris Williams:
>> > 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.
>
> Cheers,
> -- M. Uli Kusterer
> http://www.zathras.de
>
>
>
>
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