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Steven Jay Cohen
Key Viewer ... Old-time Mac users will remember the Desktop Accessory called Key Caps. Key Caps made it very simple to look up how to get your keyboard to input special characters. Apple dropped Key Caps in Mac OS X 10.2. So, I made Key Viewer.
Apple still ships the Keyboard Viewer as part of OS X, but without Key Caps, there is not a simple method of invoking it. Key Viewer is simply a wrapper around a script that makes it easy to call up the Keyboard Viewer.
Apple still ships the Keyboard Viewer as part of OS X, but without Key Caps, there is not a simple method of invoking it. Key Viewer is simply a wrapper around a script that makes it easy to call up the Keyboard Viewer.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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| Type:Utilities : Font Tools |
| License:Free |
| Date:16 May 2007 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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Key Viewer ... Old-time Mac users will remember the Desktop Accessory called Key Caps. Key Caps made it very simple to look up how to get your keyboard to input special characters. Apple dropped Key Caps in Mac OS X 10.2. So, I made Key Viewer.
Apple still ships the Keyboard Viewer as part of OS X, but without Key Caps, there is not a simple method of invoking it. Key Viewer is simply a wrapper around a script that makes it easy to call up the Keyboard Viewer.
Apple still ships the Keyboard Viewer as part of OS X, but without Key Caps, there is not a simple method of invoking it. Key Viewer is simply a wrapper around a script that makes it easy to call up the Keyboard Viewer.
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Beri~ reviewed on 13 Feb 2011
Compared to JimW's method, there's a slightly different way to access Keyboard Viewer in Snow Leopard. Same method, just different names and menus.
Here's how I do it in OS 10.6.3:
~ Open system preferences
~ Click on “Language & Text”
~ Click on “input sources” tab
~ Tick box at top of list that says “keyboard & character viewer”
~ Then tick box on bottom right of the window that says “show input menu in menu bar”
~ From this input menu, select “show keyboard viewer”.
Done! =)
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#!/bin/sh
open /System/Library/Components/KeyboardViewer.component/Contents/SharedSupport/KeyboardViewerServer.app
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http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14995
The difference is: Your application is twice as big and not Universal.
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- Open 'System Preferences'
- Open 'International Preferences'
- Click on the following items:
'Keyboard Viewer'
'Character Palette' (optional)
'Show input menu in menu bar' (at bottom)
- Close the window
The Keyboard will now be in your menu bar underneath the flag.
That's all their is to it. It is available to all programs that display the menu bar.
Some may also wish to add US Extended as a keyboard option from the list as well.