[Yobert]

But I am german and the Apple Pro Keyboard, too. The keyboard uses the usb-port of an usb-pci-card in a powerPC 8600 running MacOS9.1 and it works fine – except for the language: it "speaks" american (for example: if I press the "Z"-key the mac displays an "Y" and vice versa). :-)

Well, I tried to solve the problem by updating the usb-drivers and the input-sprockets to german drivers. With no success. I also asked this question in a german forum, but nobody knew how to solve this problem.

No here I am, still with this problem.

Does anyone know how to solve it?

Yobert

[oscar]

Go into the Keybord control panel, and choose the correct keyboard layout.

[vivaldi]

hello

you can make your own keyboard layout by editing the system with resedit (but be careful only edit a copy!!!!!!)
double click the reource KCHR and make a duplicate of an existing keyboard layout. then you can edit this layout and change y and z, ad öäüß and leave the special signes like !@#{},... where your keyboard tells that they are

vivaldi

[Yobert]

Well, thank you. I'll try this method. Still the problem is: I cannot change the keyboard-layout by selecting another language in the keyboard controlpanel. Whatever I select, the displayed keyboard layout will remain "US" (in the controlpanel it shows for example "german", but in real it uses the "US").

So I assume that I have to change the layout of the "US"-keyboard via ResEdit, am I right?

Yobert

[vivaldi]

there should be a menue on the right (left from the application menue) which shows the flag of the land your keyboard layout is. there you can change the keyboard layout.
in the keyboard control panel you can only set which keyboard layout are shown in this menue

what i forgot before
in the resources kcs#, kcs4, kcs8 you can make your own flag but it's not so easy because you have to "draw" with hex numbers.

good luck
vivaldi

[Yobert]

The problem is that the change of the layout (via the menue) has no effect! Sure for my ADB-keyboard it works, but not for the USB-keyboard.

But thanks a lot for your ideas! If you find another solution, I would be very thankful if you told me about it.

Yobert

Hi Yobert,

Have you tried trashing the keyboard preferences, in your Preferences folder, and restarting the computer? If not, give that a try to see if it helps.

Art

[Yobert]

OK. Here I am again. Tried several things:

I replaced the US-keyboard layout with the German layout via ResEdit (so it got the same name and the same ID as the old "U.S." before). It worked for the ADB-keyboard, but it had no effect on the USB-keyboard.

I changed the "z" to an "y" in the original "U.S." layout and vice versa via ResEdit. No effect, too.

I deleted the keyboard preferences and restarted the computer. Also no effect.

Well, I suppose the problem is that it has nothing to do with the system itself. For whatever I do in the keyboard layout it has NO EFFECT! So I suppose it has something to do with the USB-Driver or something with the core of the 8600, or not?

Still, thank you for your ideas!

Yobert

[This message has been edited by Yobert (edited 01-23-2001).]