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Azerty keyboard #18

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Sorry for the empty issue

It would be great for french people like me to use an azerty layout, the one we 
have on all french keyboards...

A printable sticker to put on the magic trackpad with the keys positions would 
be great too!

Thanks for your job!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lelous...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2011 at 8:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi, thanks for your feedback.

About the localized keyboard layouts, it's a planned feature, and one of the 
next things I'm going to work on.  The corresponding tracking issue is here: 
http://code.google.com/p/magickeyboard/issues/detail?id=13  (I'll mark this as 
a duplicate of that one.)

Until it's resolved, you can manually edit the keyboard layouts in order to 
move the keys to where you prefer.  For example, if you want to swap A with Q 
and W with Z in the default layout, you can do as follows:
- Locate MagicKeyboard in your Applications folder, ctrl-click it and choose 
"Show Package Contents".
- Browse to the Contents/Resources/Layouts folder.
- Open the file QwertyMini.plist in your favorite text editor, such as 
TextEdit, TextWrangler, etc (or a plist editor, in case you have XCode 
installed)
- Locate the entries you want to swap.  The Q key, for example, in a text 
editor looks like this:

        <dict>
            <key>Button</key>
            <integer>1</integer>
            <key>Type</key>
            <string>Symbol</string>
            <key>Value</key>
            <string>q</string>
            <key>Comment</key>
            <string>Q key</string>
        </dict>

- Change the values that are inside the <string></string> entries to the ones 
you want.  You'll want to replace Q with A, q with a, W with Z, w with z, etc.

If you prefer, just use the file I attached: it contains the edits I just 
mentioned.  Put it in the Contents/Resources/Layout folder that's within the 
MagicKeyboard app, replacing the existing one.

Please note that after any future update of MagicKeyboard, any edits to those 
files will be overwritten again with the default versions.  Make sure you have 
a backup.  In future I'll provide a way to make changes that persist after an 
update.

The printable sticker (provided that the user has a suitable printer and paper 
to print on, of course) will come soon, too.  Tracking issue here: 
http://code.google.com/p/magickeyboard/issues/detail?id=6

Original comment by emanuele...@gmail.com on 5 Oct 2011 at 12:15

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Issue 17 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by emanuele...@gmail.com on 5 Oct 2011 at 6:49