Re: Graphical Keyboard Map
Re: Graphical Keyboard Map
- Subject: Re: Graphical Keyboard Map
- From: Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:12:12 -0300
On 15/08/2011, at 11:14, email@hidden wrote:
> From: John Brownie <email@hidden>
> Date: 15 de agosto de 2011 07:19:48 BRT
>
> John Joyce wrote:
>> Actually, I'm seeking something more concretely visual. Apple used to publish the keyboard maps or at least the visual representation. That is the only thing I am after at the moment. If I cannot get mappings for each model of Mac (not going too far back though) then it would not be complete.
>
> My app, Ukelele (referenced earlier, http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele) will produce all you need - there's the option to specify any keyboard for which Apple gives a KCAP resource (which is most, if not all, keyboards), so you can get the images that way. You can either do a screen capture or print to PDF for each one.
The last time I checked, one of the physical keyboards for which no KCAP resource seems to exist is the "Latin America" one - used in most Portuguese- Spanish-speaking countries. It has 102 keys - the extra key (relative to the "generic" ANSI 101-key layout) is to the right of the left shift key.
I've been trying to find a utility to build such a resource, to no avail - the format is documented but it's more work to build from scratch than I can afford at this time.
At any rate, there doesn't seem to be a user-supported way of including a new KCAP into Mac OS X, and from a cursory look it seems that there's no longer a single place in the system for them - Keyboard Viewer, for one, seems to have its own copies inside the app package.
I've filed rdar://9295080/ asking for a 102-key layout to be included into the system, but so far there seems to be little interest or similar requests from Latin American users.
Anyway, I'll be grateful for any further information about these issues. I suppose replies to this will be off-topic for Cocoa-dev, so please email me privately.
--
Rainer Brockerhoff <email@hidden>
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
"In the affairs of others even fools are wise
In their own business even sages err."
Weblog: http://www.brockerhoff.net/blog
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