Caps lock issue in TCC9

[WavSlave]

(TCC 9.02.155, Win XP Pro SP3)

Hi, folks.

I just noticed something that I don't recall seeing before and wanted to see if my experience is unique or not.

When I have the Caps Lock turned on, holding either Shift key down does NOT allow me to temporarily produce lowercase characters as I would expect. Every character I type (meaning A-Z) appears in uppercase unless and until I turn the Caps Lock off.

I do get the expected behavior in CMD, 4NT8, 4DOS, all Windows apps and everything else I tried so I don't suspect a hardware or driver issue. Only TCC9 is giving me this trouble. (Sorry, but I don't have a copy of TCC10 to try and I'd rather not downgrade to an earlier build of TCC9 at this time.)

Can anybody else confirm or deny this issue?

Thanks for any feedback.

 

[vpdura]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:06:33 -0500, WavSlave <>
wrote Re [Support-t-1061] Caps lock issue in TCC9:

>Can anybody else confirm or deny this issue?

Confirmed with TCC 9.02.151 Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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[Jim Cook]

> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:06:33 -0500, WavSlave <>
> wrote Re [Support-t-1061] Caps lock issue in TCC9:
>Can anybody else confirm or deny this issue?
> ---End Quote---

4NT 9.00.64 worked -- gave lower case with caps lock and shift. 9.00.66 did not.

It appears 66 followed on the heels of a fix for "problems with
KEYSTACK sending keystrokes to a 4NT window"

--
Jim Cook
2009 Saturdays: 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 and 5/9, 9/5, 7/11, 11/7.
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[dcantor]

(TCC 9.02.155, Win XP Pro SP3)

Hi, folks.

I just noticed something that I don't recall seeing before and wanted to see if my experience is unique or not.

When I have the Caps Lock turned on, holding either Shift key down does NOT allow me to temporarily produce lowercase characters as I would expect. Every character I type (meaning A-Z) appears in uppercase unless and until I turn the Caps Lock off.

I do get the expected behavior in CMD, 4NT8, 4DOS, all Windows apps and everything else I tried so I don't suspect a hardware or driver issue. Only TCC9 is giving me this trouble. (Sorry, but I don't have a copy of TCC10 to try and I'd rather not downgrade to an earlier build of TCC9 at this time.)

Can anybody else confirm or deny this issue?

Thanks for any feedback.

I have verified that the caps lock and shift keys interact as you described on both TCC v10 and TCC v9. I had never noticed that before. Personally, I think it's the CORRECT behavior, but then I learned to type on a mechanical typewriter and learned to release the SHIFT LOCK key in order to type a lowercase letter.

 

[Steve Fabian]

dcantor wrote:
| ---Quote (Originally by WavSlave)---
| (TCC 9.02.155, Win XP Pro SP3)
| When I have the Caps Lock turned on, holding either Shift key down
| does NOT allow me to temporarily produce lowercase characters as I
| would expect. Every character I type (meaning A-Z) appears in
| uppercase unless and until I turn the Caps Lock off.
| ---End Quote---
| I have verified that the caps lock and shift keys interact as you
| described on both TCC v10 and TCC v9. I had never noticed that
| before. Personally, I think it's the CORRECT behavior, but then I
| learned to type on a mechanical typewriter and learned to release the
| SHIFT LOCK key in order to type a lowercase letter.

I, too, would generally prefer a SHIFT LOCK key. There have been products
(free or otherwise) to allow that. What's bad about the issue is that the
CAPS LOCK key "on" still affects only the alphabetic keys, which the SHIFT
key cannot temporarily reverse, but the keys for non-letters behave
identically regardless of the CAPS LOCK state.
--
Steve

 

[Charles Dye]

I, too, would generally prefer a SHIFT LOCK key.

You're in luck! Well, if you're handy with a soldering iron :-)

http://symlink.dk/projects/c64key/

 

[jabelli]

You're in luck! Well, if you're handy with a soldering iron :-)

http://symlink.dk/projects/c64key/

Or you could just download the MS Keyboard Layout Creator and remap the keyboard: http://preview.tinyurl.com/csv7sg (requires .net 2.0)

To get shift-lock functionality, import your current keyboard and turn on CAPS=SHIFT for anything you want to be shifted with caps-lock (I'd upload one but even with ia64 removed, it's still too big to upload.)