[Lazarus] New Mac OS X Scheme

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:20:44 -0300
"Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>
> wrote:
> > All to exotic combo's might also unnecessarily confuse KVMs. Like
> > the one attached to my Mini :_)
> 
> What are KVMs?
> 
> > Not on all Macs.
> > For example the Mac book with american keyboard maps Cmd+F keys to
> > F keys. Probably this can be turned off somehow.
> 
> This is bad news. Do you have such a MacBook?

Yes.

 
> And are you sure about this? I just changed my keyboard layout and
> using Command+F key did not change the brightness, etc.

Yes, I'm sure. Any F combination without the fn modifier is eaten by
OS X (except F5+F6). Pressing the fn key gives all F combinations to
lazarus.

 
> > I think the Apple scheme must not use F keys.
> 
> Of couse I am only talking about the Mac OS X Lazarus scheme
> 
> > The os-x-lazarus scheme could use them if we provide some hints how
> > to configure keyboards to not eat all F key combos.
> 
> You can tell it to give all F keys to user programs in the
> Preferences. Then you use Fn+F key to access the special Apple
> functions. But I don't like this solution, it's too intrusive.

Yes, this preference switches the behavior. Now fn+F keys are eaten by
OS X and F keys are given to lazarus. I could live with that. 


Mattias