Change Dashboard Button to Launchpad

Does anyone know how the change the current dashboard button (F4 key) to make it start launchpad instead. I noticed that this change has been made on the new Macbook Airs and on the new bluetooth keyboards. What about those of us with older macs (2010 Macbook Pro) that would like to have a quicklanch button to launchpad. Is there a way to do it? If not, how about a future update Apple, to at least give the option. Thanks.

Go into system prefs and choose keyboard. Set the F4 key to show launchpad. So now you have to push fn+F4(dashboard) to start launchpad! If you would like to not have to press fn, but just one button you can download FunctionFlip (do a google search) and enable it for the F4 key only. Be extremely careful when you do this since, according to my own experience, FunctionFlip doesn't seem to have have full OS 10.7 (Lion) support, at the moment. I did this for an "old" apple wireless keyboard with dashboard button. Thought it worked great until I tried the buit in keyboard on the computer (a mid 2011 macbook air) I had paired the wireless keyboard with. The key with the launchpad icon (F4) was completely "dead" on my laptop. It took me a day(!) to get the function of the key back. My guess is that FunctionFlip doesn't recognize the action "show launchpad" and somehow messes up some system file - located somewhere in the users home folder.
/Joah

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