[Rick Johnson]

Is there a straightforward way to swap the positions of the Command and Control keys in OS X? My wife loves her new iMac, but it's confusing for her to be switching between OS X at home and Windows at work when the applications are so similar, except for the location of the modifier key for keyboard shortcuts.

I do some development in C (Adobe Illustrator plugins), but remapping the keyboard is a mystery to me. I'd appreciate any suggestions anyone could offer, especially if there's a patch already avaiilable.

BTW, I tried QuicKeys, but am looking for a system-level solution.

Thanks, Rick

[ 04-25-2002: Message edited by: ]

[stupidFish23]

hi!

goto resExcellence, they have a keyboard modification tutorial in their OS X section...

[stupidFish23]

here's the full url link to the page...



happy coding!

[Rick Johnson]

Originally posted by stupidFish23:
<STRONG>here's the full url link to the page...



happy coding!</STRONG>

Thanks! This is great, but...

This ResEx page says that to remap modifier keys one needs to edit a KMAP resource, which I didn't find in the resource containing the KCHR resource.

Thanks, anyway. -- Rick

[clarkgoble]

You didn't read the full description. The resource is stored in the data fork (this is OSX after all) and you need to run QuickConvert to convert it. Run ResEdit on the resultant resource and then run QuickConvert again to put it back into the OSX format. Backup Localized.rsrc and then rename your new file to that.

I'm not quite sure how you do this dynamically the way QuickKeys does though.

[Rick Johnson]

Originally posted by clarkgoble:
<STRONG>You didn't read the full description. The resource is stored in the data fork (this is OSX after all) and you need to run QuickConvert to convert it.</STRONG>

Thanks for taking the time to post this along with the link, but I actually did run QuickConvert. That's how I confirmed that the KMAP resource isn't in that file. It does contain the KCHR resource which allows one to redefine the ASCII value of characters, but not the KMAP needed to map the position of modifier (and other) keys.

Thanks -- Rick

[stupidFish23]

Yeah, you're right. The modifier keys can't be changed this way. Sorry, I didn't know that...

[Rick Johnson]

Sorry, I didn't know that...

I didn't know that, either, until I read the ResEx info you steered me to. Thanks for your help!

-- Rick

[ 04-28-2002: Message edited by: Rick Johnson ]