Text spacing & keyboard mapping problem

When I type inside a text box I am now getting the characters jammed together as if there was negative letterspacing. It is also entering the wrong characters than what I type. For example, an uppercase R generates an uppercase Q.
I have checked other applications and the problem does not exist.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Thanks!
renee

There is a known problem related to control keys in the netbeans GUI.
http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Sun_Studio_FAQs#IDE_-TheSun_Studio_IDE_is_ignoring_my_control_keys
It's hard to tell from your message where the programs are
executing from.
Run two X programs next to each other, running on the same machine,
and displaying to the same X server. Verify that one of them can see
ALT keys (for example) and the other one can't. Then you know it's
a problem with the application program, and not due to your keyboard.
The Sun Studio IDE has no idea what physical keyboard you're using.
It only sees the keysyms from the X server.

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weird dreamweaver keyboard mapping problem:
Hope this solution helps someone out. If you have q's, ask
and I will try to help.
I was having a weird problem in dreamweaver... Whenever I was
in code view and typed "shift+i" to make a capital "I", instead it
would paste from the clipboard.
I finally figured out what was happening. I compared the
menu.xml in my app support folder in the user library to the
original menu.xml file that was in the application folder. I went
through until I came across the diff:
menu.xml in my library/app support folder:

<shortcut key="Cmd+Ins" name="Copy2" platform=""
command="if (dw.canClipCopy()) { dw.clipCopy() }"
domRequired="FALSE" id="DWShortcuts_HTMLSource_Copy2" />
<shortcut key="Shift+Ins" name="Paste2" platform=""
command="if (dw.canClipPaste()) { dw.clipPaste() }"
domRequired="FALSE" id="DWShortcuts_HTMLSource_Paste2" />
<shortcut key="Shift+Del" name="Cut2" platform=""
command="if (dw.canClipCut()) { dw.clipCut() }" domRequired="FALSE"
id="DWShortcuts_HTMLSource_Cut2" />
orig menu.xml file:

<shortcut key="Cmd+Ins" name="Copy2" platform=""
command="if (dw.canClipCopy()) { dw.clipCopy() }"
domRequired="FALSE" id="DWShortcuts_HTMLSource_Copy2" />
<shortcut key="Shift+Ins" name="Paste2" platform=""
command="if (dw.canClipPaste()) { dw.clipPaste() }"
domRequired="FALSE" id="DWShortcuts_HTMLSource_Paste2" />
<shortcut key="Shift+Del" name="Cut2" platform=""
command="if (dw.canClipCut()) { dw.clipCut() }" domRequired="FALSE"
id="DWShortcuts_HTMLSource_Cut2" />
There was a diff in the "platform=" tags. The orig stated
[platform="win"], my config stated [platform=""] (nothing in
between the ""'s). So, I reset the platform tag to be
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(foreign) keyboard mapping problems

Many people, myself included, have voiced problems with keyboard mappings since updating to Leopard. It appears to particularly afflict people with non-US keyboards, but I may be wrong.
Does anybody out there have a generic fix? Manually modifying the keyboard map as the Latvians did seems to address (some of) the symptoms, not the underlying problem. Accordingly, it doesn't appear to be a general fix, as reported here:
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2007/10/fixing-leopards-latvian-keyboard.html
Here are some of the other posts I saw/wrote that make me think this is a SIGNIFICANT PROBLEM IN LEOPARD:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5794935&#5794935
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5644709&#5644709
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5688731#5688731
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5854794
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5788789

Does anybody out there have a generic fix?
There is no generic fix because the problems are unrelated, except to the extent they represent goofs in creating certain files and failure to find these before release.
The Latvian keyboard issue is caused by errors in a particular .keylayout file. I don't know of any other similar layout with the same problem (In Tiger it was Macedonian and Romanian which had such errors). The Hanin Chinese IM problem is caused by errors in a couple of files particular to it -- all the other Chinese input systems have correct mappings. The X11 keyboard mapping problem concerns a different part of OS X than the others. The issues of QWERTY/AZERTY/QWERTZ in Chinese input were present in a different fashion in Tiger and earlier and many people have switched to a different IM called QIM to solve it. Having a dead Apple key is not related to ordinary character mapping issues.
Your own issue with ViaVoice is not totally clear to me, will try to respond in that thread.

SGD 4.6 and Mac OSX 10.6.5 / Keyboard mapping problem

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Chinese (Hanin) Keyboard Mapping Problems

I have just upgraded to OS X Leopard and noticed that when I switch to the Chinese (Hanin) input method, the "Z" key is mapping to the wrong phonetic character which is the same as the one produced by the ";" key. Has anyone else noticed this problem? How can I revert back to the correct mapping that was in Tiger?

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I'm a new sunstudio user and am having trouble with a setup issue. When I run sunstudio 11 from a sunray with a Sun keyboard all works fine (except the sunray has far too small of screen and it drive me crazy). When I run with my linux desktop being the x-server then none of the special keys (home, end, arrows, backbspace, enter, etc.) work correctly in sunstudio. All other gui apps I've tried (gedit, gvim, staroffice, web browser, etc.) work fine from my linux/pc keyboard.
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cb

There is a known problem related to control keys in the netbeans GUI.
http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Sun_Studio_FAQs#IDE_-TheSun_Studio_IDE_is_ignoring_my_control_keys
It's hard to tell from your message where the programs are
executing from.
Run two X programs next to each other, running on the same machine,
and displaying to the same X server. Verify that one of them can see
ALT keys (for example) and the other one can't. Then you know it's
a problem with the application program, and not due to your keyboard.
The Sun Studio IDE has no idea what physical keyboard you're using.
It only sees the keysyms from the X server.

PDA Keyboard Mapping Problem

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         I am involved in a project in which my coding revolves around MI AWT client application part. I had no problem in extraction of data from MI middle ware, thanks to MI sync APIs and this forum.
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BUG: Changing text colours within a text block: Keyboard shortcuts problem (Photoshop CS5)

In earlier versions of Photoshop, I could double click a Paragraph Text to edit it, then select individual words and change their colours using the Ctrl+Backspace and Alt-Backspace keyboard shortcuts (to change them to either Background or Foreground colours).
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Microsoft and Adobe have both moved lately in this direction (reducing choices and configurability), reportedly to "reduce the cognitive load" on presumably ever less intelligent users, with ill effects in many cases. Unfortunately, "you can have it any way you like so long as it's our way" seems to be the way of the future.
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Mapping problem with Wireless Keyboard and Japanese iPhone

Hi everyone:
This seems to be a slightly obscure question -- at least, I can't find a ready answer for it with the search terms I've tried, possibly because most people don't use this particular accessory with the iPhone.
I have an iPhone 4 that I bought from and use on Softbank, the carrier in Japan, where I live. While visiting the United States recently, I bought an Apple Wireless Keyboard from an Apple retailer. I wanted to carry it with me for use with my iPhone, so I would reliably have a convenient way to access the Internet without being confined to the touchscreen keyboard. (I live in a rural area where WiFi spots are uncommon, but my iPhone's access to Softbank's data network is fairly good and consistent.)
However, to my frustration, I can't use the keyboard due to a mapping problem. The Bluetooth connection is fine -- the iPhone can discover the keyboard. However, the mapping is off: typing "Q" gets me "A," typing "Z" gets me "W", numbers and punctuation are off, etc. The key point: This is NOT a problem with the International Keyboard settings (under the Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> International Keyboards menu). I have the Keyboard setting set to QWERTY, which is the layout of the Apple keyboard; I have tried all the other possibilities, just in case. None of them work. Setting the Keyboard setting to QWERTY does not make the external QWERTY keyboard map correctly.
The rather ironic addendum is this: While on a recent trip to Tokyo, I visited the Apple store in Shibuya and, after concluding the main business of my visit (discussing my MacBook's battery problems with an English-speaking staffer), I took out my iPhone and keyboard and asked him about my mapping problem. He started with the Keyboard menu, tried the same things I had tried, realized they weren't working, and puzzled over the problem for a while. Then he did this: He hit a key combination (I believe) that brought up a menu on the iPhone's screen. "Ah, there's your problem," he said, and selected a new setting. The problem was instantly fixed.
To my chagrin, however, I neglected to write down what "Ken" had done to fix the problem. Argh... I was looking at the iPhone upside-down; I'd already taken up more than half an hour; people were waiting, and I guess, being used to living in the countryside now, that I'm not used to Shibuya crowds any more. Anyway, I didn't take careful notes or ask him to walk me through it, and now I cannot recall or repeat what he did. And I still can't use my keyboard!
Any ideas or advice, anyone? How did "Ken" fix my problem, and how can I repeat it? Much, much appreciated, in advance.

THAT'S IT. Sir, you have solved my problem. Thank you!!
And I feel a little silly; this will doubtless seem to an expert as if it should have been obvious all along. But isn't that always the way in hindsight?
Here's what happened: The key combination I was trying to remember was "Apple/command + space on the hardware keyboard," as you just said above. The "menu" it brings up is, apparently, a list of keyboards. I take it that this list is the same as the list of the "virtual" keyboards on the iPhone? I have never had more than one external keyboard -- the Apple Wireless -- but I do have several keyboards active virtually, as the iPhone in Japan seems to come with both the "Nihongo Ten-key" and the "Nihongo Romaji" keyboards active, and I added several other languages as well.
When I hit "Apple/command + space," this list comes up on the iPhone's touchscreen. Highlighted and checked at the top is "English," just as if it had been selected all along. But nonetheless, when I first turn on and pair my keyboard with the iPhone, I need to perform this key-combination action, as if to "reselect" English, and then the keyboard promptly starts working properly as QWERTY. I can only assume that one of the others had been default-selected before -- presumably one of the Nihongo ones? -- and that this was causing the interference.
Thank you again! You have made me and my wireless keyboard very happy.

Problems with ViaVoice under Leopard, especially key mapping problems

ViaVoice's behavior has changed considerably under Leopard. First I will discuss the key mapping problem, since I'm eagerly looking for an answer to this problem. At the end of this post, I will voice some of the other problems I've experienced for those who may be interested. The key mapping problem may be specific to the fact that I use a foreign keyboard with a US version of ViaVoice.
INTRO:
I have used ViaVoice on my Mac for years, more or less without problems (ViaVoice's bugginess is notorious).
Those who know ViaVoice will know that one has two general options for dictation. One can dictate into ViaVoice's so-called SpeakPad, which allows special formatting, editing and dictation error correction within the dictated text, or one can dictate into "external" software such as Microsoft Word, in which case ViaVoice just sends a string of characters to that software. SpeakPad appears to make strong use of the operating system's built-in functionality for character formatting, document formatting, etc.
*MY PROBLEM*
I have a German keyboard on my PowerBook, yet dictate in US English. When I dictated into SpeakPad under Tiger, all characters appeared correctly. However, when I dictated into Microsoft Word using Tiger, I had to switch the keyboard mapping from German to US to get all characters (that means including the characters that are located at different positions on a German keyboard than they are on a US keyboard such as y, z, apostrophes and parentheses) to appear correctly.
Under Leopard, things have changed. Now it doesn't matter whether I dictate into SpeakPad or Word; the results are the same and many characters do not appear correctly.
If set to a German keyboard, y and z appear as expected. To name a few irregularities:
"(" appears as ")"
")" appears as "="
apostrophes appear as "#" and
";" appears as ","
If set to a US keyboard, y and z are interchanged. "(" and ")" appear as expected. Apostrophes appear as "\" and ";" appears as ","
By comparison, if typed (as opposed to dictated, as in the examples above) "correctly" (i.e. based on the letters printed on the keyboard) on a German keyboard set to imitate a US keyboard:
y and z are interchanged
apostrophes appear as "|"
"(" appears as "*"
")" appears as "(" and
";" appears as the symbol for "less than"
Since I don't have a US keyboard, I can't say how it would behave if set to imitate a German keyboard, i.e. if there's a correlation to the results I get when I dictate.
Since I was previously able to dictate correctly into SpeakPad by setting the keyboard to "German" and into Word by setting the keyboard to "US," I presume that this is a problem in Leopard, not ViaVoice.
*OTHER PROBLEMS WITH VIAVOICE UNDER LEOPARD*
In addition to the aforementioned key mapping problems (that may be specific to those of us with foreign keyboards), ViaVoice appears to have lost considerable functionality in Leopard. I cannot access SpeakPad's Preferences and the correction window. Moreover, the traffic-light like window buttons have disappeared from the VoiceCenter (although they work if you click where they should be). SetupAssistent appears to function.
I've written to Nuance about these problems, but have little hope that they will invest the time in producing a patch since they haven't released any updates since 2003.

Thrums1,
I've never had to "register" ViaVoice after updating the system. I thus suspect you haven't fully followed my above, three-step advice (particularly step 3).
1) Reinstall ViaVoice from CD.
2) Update to the latest version (using the patch downloadable from Nuance's website).
3) Replace the “temp” and “users” folders (in the "ViaVoice" folder at the upper level of your home directory) by a previous copy thereof. When I say previous copy, I mean a copy from when ViaVoice was still working properly, e.g. a copy from when it was running under Tiger.
As I said, I've gotten ViaVoice to survive several system updates by following the above steps. To my knowledge, the last step is critical since it saves you from having to reconfigure ViaVoice under the new operating system (in this case Leopard). I suspect that ViaVoice is crashing on your system because it's trying to start some module of the SetUpAssistant that is incompatible with Leopard (as many are). If you instead use old copies of the "temp" and "users" folders (from the previous system), then ViaVoice doesn't have to go through the initial "registration" process; ViaVoice doesn't need the SetUpAssistant; and all is (more or less) fine.
Good luck!
BTW, to my knowledge, Dictate only runs on Intel Macs. It thus won't run on a G4 iBook, just as it won't run on my PowerBook G4.

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I'm just getting used to using an OS X machine for development rather than a Windows based PC and have hit upon a problem which I would love to solve...
On my full-size Mac keyboard I would like the Home and End keys to operate as they do in a Windows environment such that Home goes to the beginning of the current line and End goes to the end. By default OS X Home scrolls to the top of the window and End scrolls to the bottom. Lovely for web browsing. Useless for coding!
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Anybody solved this one?
Thanks.

Thanks ! ,
Probably it will be more interesting to have OS X by default behave smarter related to key bindings,
for example if this is a read-only doc ( pdf, webpage ) then Home goes to the beginning of the doc, if this is some text editing control then beginning of the line. Or integrate globally an option that will allow to propagate this globally. If any app needs to override this than will pop some system settings to allow the override for this app. There is no point in a text editor to have common used keys as dead keys. In the end I can use Ctrl + A / E to do the same I would with Home / End. This is one of those things that bugs me. Some unthinkable small blockers here and there ...
Why this is bugging people is because when you edit text you focus on a small area and you need you to navigate in that area quickly. In this context to press home to go to the beginning of the doc (or even do nothing) is not typical because to move away from things that interests you there are the page up/down or click on the scroll and move where you need.

Messed Up Keyboard Mapping, not an Software Issue

Greetings Folks!
I've been having a strange problem with my keyboard; the keyboard mapping is all messed up!
I was writing a piece of work this afternoon, and had to go out for couple of hours. I put my Macbook Pro into sleep and gone out. When I returned, I seemed to having problem logging in again. Tried to log in to guest account, all worked normal. I did some trials, apparently my keyboard mapping got screwed. All keys are working but all address strange letters, like Kyrilic or Scandinavian letters. Function keys are OK, I can adjust the brightness, etc, touchpad is fine, but no text.
I'm practically locked out of my account. Only one thing is the extreme slowness of stacks. It takes forever icons to pop out, everything else seems fine. All software work, everything is OK, and local keyboard mapping settings seems fine.
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Yeah, keyboard is messed up, it was an hardware issue.
I've stopped by in my Apple Store and told them about the problem. They were very kind, and I handed my Macbook Pro over. The have examined it, and delivered to me shortly. According to the service document, one of the function keys struck somehow, altering the whole mapping of keyboard. They have changed it, and my Mac runs like new.
Thanks for tips mate.

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I'm using Oracle Forms 10g with Oracle Forms and Reports Application server 10g.
I know how to change fmrweb.res to change how keys function on web forms. The problem I'm having is I only know how to assign the fmrweb.res file when connecting to the application server, which means all forms running on that session have to use the same keyboard mapping.
I know you can change the defualt fmrweb.res for all the forms executed on the application server
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Can you specify multiple forms in the basexxx.htm file(basejini.htm) in the PARAM section like
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Edited by: user537213 on Sep 19, 2008 5:38 PM
Edited by: user537213 on Sep 19, 2008 6:24 PM

Posiible approach (i now it sounds strange):
Configure your enter-key to fire the KEX-EXEQRY-Trigger.
In the dataentry-form-module: Overwrite the KEY-EXEQRY-Trigger so thtat is just does a NEXT_ITEM; .
I know there may be other implications depending of the compelixity of your dataentry-form, but maybe this helps.

How can I keep my original keyboard mapping in different input methods?

Hi!
i have a question about my keyboard mapping. my powerbook has a german keyboard. and i switch frequently my input methods between german and simplified chinese(ITABC), which was all fine. but after upgrading to Leopard, when i switch to ITABC input method, my keyboard mapping changed along with this input method to chinese keyboard mapping! which annoys me a lot! this did not happen before when i was in Tiger!
could someone please tell me how to keep my original keyboard mapping (at least the alphabets) when i switch to ITABC?
Thanks a lot!

in german input, the key "Y" and "Z" are opposite comparing with normal english keyboard. and in chinese input method, the "y" and "z" are mapped just as normal english keyboard.
what happens now is, in ITABC input method, "y" and "z" are mapped as normal english keyboard, which is not like that before when i was using tiger.
Thanks for the info! You should definitely ask about this on the Chinese-Mac list. Keyboard mapping with the Apple Chinese IM's has long been a problem, and is one reason many people are moving to QIM:
http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/input_methods.html#other
I suspect something has changed in the Chinese IM with Leopard to mess this up for you, and it may not be fixable.

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