Re: 80% OT: keyboard symbols

From: Muzzlebreak (s_at_e.a)
Date: 11/10/03 

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:35:33 GMT

>
>> Do you suppose that entering code source would be easier if their
>> were a dedicated row above the number row on the querty keyboard,
>
> "qwerty". Criminey. I guess I just learned that outlook express
> doesn't do the change when you type in the propper spelling and then
> click "add" in the spell checker.
>
>

Well, if you have the programming experience, you could always write an app
to hook keypress messages for a certain window. This way you could replace
whatever keys you wanted with new messages that sent strings to the window
as multiple keypress messages. But all-in-all, I have found that there is
no need for such things. Most languages have a condensed syntax already,
like C (my personal fav).

Perhaps you just need a more comfortable keyboard. Everybody has their own
preference. I like the mini-104's, my father likes the ergo-boards, and
most other people like inet-boards. Most of todays keyboards come with
extra keys that are somehow programmable. Don't know if they can be
programmed for string output, though...

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