home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Hi Executor users,
-
- If you ever need accents under Executor, read on.
-
- I have a US keyboard, but most of what I write is in French or Portuguese.
- Happily, the Mac standard supports accents, and Executor does so too (again,
- Kudos to Ardi). Usually, to get accents on a Mac, all you do is type Alt-e
- then a letter and you get an acute accented letter, etc... This way, you can
- get all the accents you need, even for German, Swedish, Spanish, etc... This
- mechanism works very well under Executor.
- However, some users (like me) prefer to just type an accent, then a letter
- and presto, you have your accented letter. If you want an accent without a
- letter, just type the accent followed by space. This is how I type accents
- under Window$ 3.1x and Window$95, using the US-International keyboard
- layout.
- How do you get this under Executor?
- Step 1) Get a package called easy-accents.hqx in one of the many Mac
- Archives. This package contains a resource KCHR.
-
- Step 2) Under the System Folder in Executor, you will find a file called
- System. This file contains many Mac resources, among them all the keyboard
- layouts supported by Executor.
-
- Step 3) Get a copy of Resedit. I got 2.1.3 from Apple on the Web.
-
- Step 4) Go to a Mac. Unfortunately, I couldn't use Resedit under Executor,
- and Resourcerer doesn't allow writes under the shareware version.
-
- Step 5) Use Resedit to cut and paste between the easy-accents file and the
- Executor System file. You can even edit a number of resources using resedit!
- I just edited the KCHR resource. Rename the new resource to one of the
- keyboard layouts Executor recognizes. I used US, so I deleted the old
- resource and substituted by the new one.
-
- Step 6) Copy the system file back to the Executor System Folder directory.
-
- Step 7) Launch executor with all the switches plus the -keyboard
- whatever-name switch. I used executor -keyboard US.
-
- Step 8) Enjoy!
-
- This should work under E/L and E/D.
-
- One additional note for Executor/Linux users. If you use the new XFree 3.12D
- X Window server, you have to disable the new Xkbd extension to allow the
- dead keys under Executor. Just launch the X server with a -kbd switch or
- include the appropriate line in the XF86Config file.
-
- I guess Ardi can include a USINT KCHR resource in the new releases of
- Executor (are you listening, Ardi gurus?). But you can also customize many
- things with Resedit in the System file. All the usual Mac hacks, in fact.
-
- Good luck to all!
-
- Andrew
- abalsa@gwsmtp.hec.fr
-
-