[G4] Key Caps missing in Tiger?

[Daniel Brieck Jr.]

Ray,

It is nice how it floats on top of all other windows too.

I don't think they are trying to make it harder to find on purpose. I  
think they just tried to place it in a logical place with the  
keyboard preferences so that maybe a new user of os x might find it.   
It goes against tradition is really what it does, for users who have  
been running since the Classic OS days. But if we were new users we  
would probably not know what Key Caps was, or even how to find it,  
with out opening it by chance, first.. It is one of those things like  
looking for the Chooser to print when first going from os 9 to 10.  
There is a new way to do it...

But apple did do a Back up plan sort of... Note that if you type "Key  
Caps" into Mac Help from the Finder it gets you the answer. However,  
typing 'Key Caps' into the Spotlight search in System Preferences  
does not and it should...


Daniel J. Brieck Jr.

On Nov 4, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Raymond Hardy wrote:

> Daniel,
>     Thanks, you solved the problem!  Wonder why they go to such  
> trouble to make the computer more difficult to use? - though I must  
> say the graphic of the keyboard is really nice.
> Ray
>
>
> On Nov 4, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Daniel Brieck Jr. wrote:
>
>
>> Ray,
>> Yeah you are right, but they still offer something exactly like it  
>> in Tiger. It is just not called the same and it is kind of hidden..
>>
>> Here is what you have to do to get it,  Go to "System  
>> Preferences", click on "International" icon, click  on the tab  
>> labeled "Input Menu". Then click the "Show input menu in menu  
>> bar". Then make sure that the Keyboard layout window is scrolled  
>> to the top. Then check the checkbox next to "Keyboard Viewer".   
>> Then go to the menu bar and under your keyboard flag you can then  
>> get to what we use to call "Key Caps" now labeled "Show Keyboard  
>> Viewer".  I myself saved the old Key Caps Application from the finder
>>
>> Daniel J. Brieck Jr.
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:44 AM, Raymond Hardy wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Can anyone help me find the Key Caps Utility which was included  
>>> in the dropdown menu under the US flag in Panther but which has  
>>> disappeared (not found by Spotlight) in Tiger. --- grrrrrrrr
>>> Ray Hardy