Key assignments Message #6 Posted by Andrés C. Rodríguez (Argentina) on 20 Apr 2004, 8:42 a.m., in response to message #4 by Veli-Pekka Nousiainen
Backspace may be a better option for CLx. If keyboard assignment is configurable, then each person may have his/her choice; which is the best possible situation.
What I would not like:
a) The need to click with a mouse on the screen, specially for number entry. And better yet, if the "Stack Group Keys": Enter, X<>Y, Rv, CLx could be "pressed" without the mouse. There may be issues with CHS (as different from the subtraction "minus"... may "Shift minus" be an option?) and, to a lesser extent, with EEX ("E" may be a logical choice, there may be others).
b) The usage of some keys like "<" or ">" on the main PC keyboard, which vary in location due to national language layout variations (for instance, this was a big problem for me when I used MS Flight Simulator with a non-US keyboard some years ago)
c) As notebooks usually don't have a separate numeric keypad, the full keyboard default may be inconvenient (Flight Simulator comes to mind again, and not for good reasons). Other configurations may be needed.
d) Problems arising from the use of "," (comma) or "." (period) as decimal separator, set on the Windows Regional Configuration applet. There are pieces of software affected by this kind of selection. So, in my humble opinion, the keyboard "dot" should be the decimal separator, without caring for the other Windows settings.
Again, if the mapping is configurable, each of us can choose freely.
Thank you again, Eric.
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