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Article #1208Re: Keyboard question
From: Paul St George
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 00:00
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I have sifted through the various replies (for which I am grateful) and one way of solving my keyboard problem has risen above the others in popularity and clarity. The preferred solution is to wire a remote switch into a multi-button mouse (or a joystick, infra-red mouse or some other input device). This solution implies that the remote switch would then emulate a mouse click. So, the theory is that what can be 'clicked' with a mouse button can also be clicked remotely by a switch. My last question is, then, can Option and Shift be 'clicked' with a mouse button? My original question was: > Can anybody help me? > > I want to use a switch to do the same job as any one key on a Mac > Keyboard. What do I need to make or buy to put between this switch and > the keyboard or between the switch and the computer? > > I am designing an art exhibition and I want people to input simple > information (one key) into the computer without using the keyboard or a > mouse. > > If it is possible, I would like the key that is substituted to be the > Shift key or the Option key.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,bfb5a79f8f0e01d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: paul@minument.demon.co.uk (Paul St George) Subject: Re: Keyboard question Date: 1998/04/16 Message-ID: <19980416084620147673@minument.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 344587140 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: minument.demon.co.uk:194.222.21.25 References: <19980411115022786054@minument.demon.co.uk> <1d7ef3b.18mi903h8jkjoN@firthcom.demon.co.uk> <19980413081842156721@minument.demon.co.uk> <1d7g2gq.1nsl66jcq8ohhN@firthcom.demon.co.uk> <1998041418103360259@minument.demon.co.uk> <1d7hosn.gt6fvdmryq2iN@firthcom.demon.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 892712761 nnrp-08:1537 NO-IDENT minument.demon.co.uk:194.222.21.25 Organization: Minumental Sculptures Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac