Keyboard Simulator ('Key Caps')

[Ian Wood]

No idea about Windows, but Key Caps is still around in 10.4, it's  
just that it's renamed and you have to turn it on - and the switch is  
a bit... 'buried'.

Open System Prefs.
International pane.
Input Menu tab.
Check "Keyboard Viewer" in the list.

Keyboard Viewer (pretty much identical to the old Key Caps) will now  
be an option in the input menu on the menu bar.

Ian

On 25 Sep 2006, at 16:57, Graham Samuel wrote:

> I am starting work on an app (cross-platform Mac & PC) where the  
> user will be allowed to select certain characters from the  
> repertoire of a chosen font: the easiest way to do this visually -  
> at least for the Roman alphabet, which is what I need - is by  
> showing a graphic representation of a keyboard with the appropriate  
> layout (varies by country) and allowing the user to click on a  
> character, with the modifier keys (shift etc) working as they do on  
> the real keyboard. Apple used to have a Desk Accessory called Key  
> Caps which did just that - perhaps this has now been replaced by  
> the Font Panel or the Character Palette, neither of which seem to  
> do what I want. I'm not sure if Windows XP has/had such a utility.
>
> Has any lister had to offer this feature, and if so, how did they  
> do it? Any pointers gratefully received.
>
> Graham
> ----------------------------------------
> Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France
>
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