I wanted to use my brand new Windows laptop, but I had a trouble in the Code Editor:
the cursor changed from insertion mode (standard) to edition mode (overwrite the previous text.
The only solution I found was to quit Xojo and re run it.
I was not even able to found how I change the edition mode !
Help !!!
on english keyboards there is a key marked ‘ins’ or ‘insert’ this switches between these modes.
I don’t know what it is labelled on your keyboard.
It is usually close to backspace or HOME keys
French keyboard : ‘inser’.
Jeff: for the location, you are right. The mlode switched when I wanted to delete a character, I think.
Jeff, Michel: I will check on my laptop later. BTW: there are PC users here at McDonalds. Yes, it seems you are right (inser and near the delete key).
Thank you all.
What a wonderful forum (most of the time) !
BTW, when using a VM or Boot Camp, here are the keys equivalents for Mac keyboard
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5636?viewlocale=en_US
Sadly, there is no key combination for Insert on recent wireless keyboards and MB.
It should be possible for a VM to send the keystroke through AppleScript, or VMWare Fusion provides a menu option to do so.
But if one uses a lot a Mac with Window and the Insert key, it is always possible to plug in an USB PC keyboard 
I am not sure; is VirtualBox know an USB Keyboard ?
BTW: I do not even try my Bluetooth keyboard (or Mouse).
I never was able to see an external hard disk on VirtualBox - Windows XP. So, I followed an advice by Norman and I use a shared folder. Nice.
[quote=130623:@Emile Schwarz]I am not sure; is VirtualBox know an USB Keyboard ?
BTW: I do not even try my Bluetooth keyboard (or Mouse).
I never was able to see an external hard disk on VirtualBox - Windows XP. So, I followed an advice by Norman and I use a shared folder. Nice.[/quote]
The Mac is able to use any PC USB keyboard. Since Virtual Box is a Mac app, it has no reason not to see it.
I do not know about Virtual Box, but VMWare Fusion works perfectly with my iMac and the default blue tooth mouse and keyboard.
Back to the insertion mode and the Windows 8 discovery.
i was asking myself how one (a totally new to the computers) can be after trying to use Windows 8.
To better emphase my question above, think that I am in the computer industry since 1980-05.
(no punch cards at these times
)
And, fortunately for me, I learnt typewriting when at school. That helped a lot for typing and understand the Tab parabola (the process to have a rule to set tab stop and the use of the tab key).
[quote=130755:@Emile Schwarz]i was asking myself how one (a totally new to the computers) can be after trying to use Windows 8.
To better emphase my question above, think that I am in the computer industry since 1980-05.
(no punch cards at these times
)
And, fortunately for me, I learnt typewriting when at school. That helped a lot for typing and understand the Tab parabola (the process to have a rule to set tab stop and the use of the tab key).[/quote]
We are warped by such a long history. Look at kids around you with their smart phones. They have no barriers towards computing, but may never really want a computer per se.
My own son who is already 39 has a Vaio he almost never uses ; he does most of his browsing and email on his iPhone, and when he needs a bigger screen turns to his Surface tablet. He will probably never wonder about the Insert key or the overwrite mode which is simply a remnant of the past, just like Fn-Backspace on the Mac.
Not for me: I use it and as far as the keys are in the same area I suppose that is the reason why I changed the edition mode.
This is like the country keyboard layout change in Windwows XP: (option-shift ?) REALbasic used that keyboard shortcut for something (i Lo,ng forgot).
As I said, you and I are warped by decades of using older kinds of computers. I am even officially recognized as computer specialist dinosaur in Facebook 
In truth, older editing modes like overwrite simply do not exist on smart phones and tablets, neither do delete keys with just backspace available. On the Mac, when I looked the equivalent of Insert for you I found out that the Mac Help key had simply disappeared from modern keyboards. Yet, when I plug in a PC keyboard and hit Insert, it does bring up the question mark on the Mac. Another key that has disappeared from touch devices is ESC.
Given the predominant use of the smartphone as data entry device, I would not be terribly surprised if the keyboard as we know it disappeared altogether in the future. Already, the mouse is on notice. And finding a mouse pad is fast becoming impossible …
Star Trek : The next Generation had it surprisingly right back in 1987 with a massive display of touch screens, and the use of small pads very much the size of the iPhone 6… In Star Trek : Deep Space Nine, one can even see Jake Sisko writing an entire book on a touch hand held device. So, was Steve Jobs influenced by the series, or has the crew of the series been influenced in secret by his prototypes ?
Star Trek : The Next Generation as seen in my screen shot are the UK edition I am collecting. I used that folder because it was beside me. I duplicated (many times) the same issue # (2) and change the file name and extension, etc. to meet my needs. (Oh, thats creen shot was in a different conversation )
Star Trek : The Next Generation and Steve Jobs ? I do not know.
Star Trek : The Next Generation ?
Usually I (try to) follow the story, techical or
are beyond the scope of my attention. NCIS Los Angeles or Minority Report: yes, I saw the touch (large) screen !
Smartphones (téléphone intelligent au Québec !): I do not own one, so I cannot talk about it.
BTW: mt two in one laptop display a keyboard at password time (at the end of the boot ime, back to work after a nap) So, you may be right, we can see the end of the keyboards in the future.
At last, sci-fi always had a great response withing the research community (and some times engineering:the doors that opens when someone comes near in Star Trek TOS): there is always some people who search how this or that (found in sci-fi) can be done in real life (and if it is possible to do that).
[quote=130917:@Emile Schwarz]Smartphones (téléphone intelligent au Québec !): I do not own one, so I cannot talk about it.
[/quote]
Another Star Trek gizmo that was realized was the communicator from the original series (1967) which became the ubiquitous Motorola foldable cell phones…
Yes and No.
Depends on if the Enterprise plays a role in the communication. TX/RX machines does not need relay antennas like our phones needs (excepted for > 160 Km distances, more or less).
These TX/RX were miscalled Talky/Walkies in the old ages. Multibands “Talky/Walkies” exists since the end of the 70s
Multibands: 200 / 300 or more frequencies, not just some quartz fixed frequencies.
[quote=130938:@Emile Schwarz]Yes and No.
Depends on if the Enterprise plays a role in the communication. TX/RX machines does not need relay antennas like our phones needs (excepted for > 160 Km distances, more or less).
These TX/RX were miscalled Talky/Walkies in the old ages. Multibands “Talky/Walkies” exists since the end of the 70s
Multibands: 200 / 300 or more frequencies, not just some quartz fixed frequencies.[/quote]
For all we know, technology invented in the 23rd century may rely on anything but antiquated electromagnetic signals. One possibility just explored lately is the use of quantum entangled particles which change state instantaneously no matter the distance, without any need for an electromagnetic of light carrier.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement (intrication quantique).
All the reasons to doubt the CETI project will any time soon bring any result : radio signals may be considered as retarded as smoke signals by advanced extra terrestrial civilizations that do not use them anymore than most of us do with long wave radio frequencies.
There is a scene that looks like what you wrote (in quote) in the good old Battle Star Galactica (TV Serie): Appolo goes to an old, very old observatory (in the Galactica spaceship) and watch what we can understand as a TV screen and with her mate was talking about old civilizations. When they are quitting that "observatory room, a TV signal appears on the TV screen with sound
Very funny.