Mac OS 8.5 Technote: Part LXXVIII

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Key Caps 8.1

Key Caps provides a user interface for displaying and viewing the characters produced by various key combinations.
  • Key Caps will work with System 7.5.3 and later versions of the Mac OS.

  • Key Caps is now an 'APPD'-type application.

  • Key Caps provides Unicode support for 'uchr' system resources.

  • For better display of multiple Unicode characters that map to a single key, as in the Indic and Unicode keyboard layouts, the Key Caps window can now be zoomed to a larger size. When the cursor is on a key that displays multiple Unicode characters, a yellow floating popup window showing all the characters will appear below the key.

  • Dead keys are outlined using a gray color instead of a gray pattern.

  • Support for inline text entry has been added.

  • KeyCaps supports 'fn' and 'num-lock' mode display on PowerBook G3 computers.

  • To allow for better character visibility, Key Caps now draws small keys with a smaller font and less 3D styling than other square keys. For example, the arrow keys on the PowerBook G3 are drawn in this way.

  • Any new keys with either the standard 21-pixel width or 21-pixel height (defined in 'KCAP' resources) will be correctly drawn without requiring any new supporting 'kbit' or 'kpdr' resource in Key Caps.

  • The Key Caps Preferences file in the Preferences folder now contains the version of the last instance of Key Caps that wrote into the Preferences file.

  • A problem where a crash could occur when pasting a large amount of text into the text box has been corrected.

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