Apple Pro Keyboard

External Since: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 2

Hi all,
I have a little question about the Apple Pro Keyboard connection with a PC.
I bought this keyboard a couple of weeks ago, and plugged into the USB port.
No problem, the keyboard is well recognized, everything seems to work,
wonderful this keyboard is so cute ... Smile

But it seems that a few keys are not working properly : in fact some keys
like '5([' are not the same on a PC keyboard and on this Apple keyboard. It
is not a problem because I know where are these keys but it is a little bit
surprising for someone else (my sister for example).
I wonder if it exists something like a driver for this keyboard for PC
A bypass solution could be to "remap" the keys with the new code (?) I think
it deals with scancode in the regedit but I don't have more information
Please could someone help me on this point, it would be so nice.
Thank you very in advance and regards,
Ludo, who is going to die with the heat in France ...
Sad

External Since: Mar 29, 2004 Posts: 691

Ludo wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a little question about the Apple Pro Keyboard connection with
> a PC. I bought this keyboard a couple of weeks ago, and plugged into
> the USB port. No problem, the keyboard is well recognized, everything
> seems to work, wonderful this keyboard is so cute ... Smile

> But it seems that a few keys are not working properly : in fact some
> keys like '5([' are not the same on a PC keyboard and on this Apple
> keyboard. It is not a problem because I know where are these keys but
> it is a little bit surprising for someone else (my sister for
> example).
> I wonder if it exists something like a driver for this keyboard for PC
> A bypass solution could be to "remap" the keys with the new code (?)
> I think it deals with scancode in the regedit but I don't have more
> information Please could someone help me on this point, it would be
> so nice.

You can remap the keys on Windows 2K/XP - I've done this for my Logitech
keyboard, the details are here:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.ben.pope.name/logitech.html" target="_blank">www.ben.pope.name/logitech.html</a>

I found the info on an MS Webpage:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/input/w2kscan-map.mspx" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/tech/input/w2kscan-map.mspx</a>

This was useful too:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes.html" target="_blank">http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes.html</a>

There's a nice looking project here (it must be, I've bookmarked it):
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wsi/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/wsi/</a>

Good luck!

Ben
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