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Pipe symbol

grumble Loudon
A Little bit a lion
Join date: 30 Nov 2005
Posts: 612
10-30-2006 03:32
Does the mac have a pipe | symbol on it's keyboard?

I need to know if the current bug that prevents the pipe symbol from being used in the object editor is just a bug or has to do with OS independence?
Zi Ree
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Join date: 25 Feb 2006
Posts: 723
10-30-2006 04:42
Since C / C++ is used as a programming language on Mac OS as well, and since pipes are an essential part of those languages, I would assume that Mac users are able to type pipe symbols as easily as every other OS's users.
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Argent Stonecutter
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Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
10-30-2006 06:41
Mac use the same keyboards as PCs. The only differences are:

1. The key marked "Windows" on modern PC keyboards is copied from the "Apple" or "Command" key on Mac keyboards. For some reason Microsoft put the ALT and Windows keys in the opposite order to Mac keyboards, but the keys and functions are the same.

2. The key marked "Insert" on the PC is "Help" on the Mac. SL is the only Mac program I know where this key puts you into "replace mode", and I dearly wish they would take that out on the Mac version (hell, I wish they'd take it out on the PC version, too... it's right under "page down" on my keyboard and I keep hitting it when I'm flying downwards).

3. There is no "Menu" key.

4. The three keys after F12 that are usually labelled "PrintScreen/SysRequest" / "Scroll Lock" / "Pause/Break" are F13-F15.

5. There is an additional set of 4 keys above the keypad, for volume control and eject.

I use a regular PC keyboard on my Mac by choice. I don't like Apple's keyboards, I have to use Windows occasionally anyway, and the few non-Apple Mac keyboards I like cost at least 10 times what I pay for comparable Windows-style keyboards. No, that's not an exaggeration - I have rarely paid more than $10 for a PC keyboard, and the good Mac keyboards are $100 on up.
Prester Joffre
Alchemist
Join date: 4 Dec 2005
Posts: 87
|||| heh - shift \
10-30-2006 12:26
use shift \ - should be above the return key
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