how do make VS2005 use the right keyboard? *angry*
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i am in England, and i have an English layout keyboard sitting on my desk. one quirk of this is that when i press SHIFT + number 2 i get double quotes. however every few days VS2005 decides to be "different", "unique" and "exciting" and use what i suspect is an American keyboard layout. every other running program on my machine (and there are lots) is still using the correct English keyboard layout, but not VS2005 :mad: :mad: :mad: early signs are that SHIFT + number 2 inserts '@' rather than the expected '"' perhaps it is just me, but when coding i find it remarkably helpful for the key i type to be inserted into the source code, rather than some other, random, key. if its a helpful clue restarting the IDE fixes this problem. the last time this happened (a couple of days ago) i hunted through the options and found tools -> options -> environment -> international settings which i changed from the deeply ambigious "English" to the exciting and highly precise "Same as Microsoft Windows", but that has not helped. if you hear a load noise that sounds like a computer breaking in the next few minutes it has nothing what so ever to do with me or my new best friend, "Mr Sledge Hammer", honest! :cool: zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
feline_dracoform wrote:
i am in England, and i have an English layout keyboard sitting on my desk
Wow, I'm sitting in America and have an English layout keyboard sitting on my desk. Seriously though VS doesn't allow you to change the keyboard layout. That would be a setting in the Control Panel. Precisely buried in Regional and Language Options. The definition of key mappings would be in there. Its probably switching to the US layout. Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots
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i am in England, and i have an English layout keyboard sitting on my desk. one quirk of this is that when i press SHIFT + number 2 i get double quotes. however every few days VS2005 decides to be "different", "unique" and "exciting" and use what i suspect is an American keyboard layout. every other running program on my machine (and there are lots) is still using the correct English keyboard layout, but not VS2005 :mad: :mad: :mad: early signs are that SHIFT + number 2 inserts '@' rather than the expected '"' perhaps it is just me, but when coding i find it remarkably helpful for the key i type to be inserted into the source code, rather than some other, random, key. if its a helpful clue restarting the IDE fixes this problem. the last time this happened (a couple of days ago) i hunted through the options and found tools -> options -> environment -> international settings which i changed from the deeply ambigious "English" to the exciting and highly precise "Same as Microsoft Windows", but that has not helped. if you hear a load noise that sounds like a computer breaking in the next few minutes it has nothing what so ever to do with me or my new best friend, "Mr Sledge Hammer", honest! :cool: zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
Are you maybe accidentally hitting the keyboard language shortcut key (Alt+Left Shift)? I occasionally do that and the keyboard switches to Danish or Japanese or whatever language is next in my list of installed languages. If VC6 happens to be the active app when I do that, I have to restart it to get it back to the US English behavior (eg Ctrl+Space pops up the Chinese IME instead of Intellisense). --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | NEW!! PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ
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Question How do you make make VS2005 use the right keyboard? Answer: Un-plug the left keyboard. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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i am in England, and i have an English layout keyboard sitting on my desk. one quirk of this is that when i press SHIFT + number 2 i get double quotes. however every few days VS2005 decides to be "different", "unique" and "exciting" and use what i suspect is an American keyboard layout. every other running program on my machine (and there are lots) is still using the correct English keyboard layout, but not VS2005 :mad: :mad: :mad: early signs are that SHIFT + number 2 inserts '@' rather than the expected '"' perhaps it is just me, but when coding i find it remarkably helpful for the key i type to be inserted into the source code, rather than some other, random, key. if its a helpful clue restarting the IDE fixes this problem. the last time this happened (a couple of days ago) i hunted through the options and found tools -> options -> environment -> international settings which i changed from the deeply ambigious "English" to the exciting and highly precise "Same as Microsoft Windows", but that has not helped. if you hear a load noise that sounds like a computer breaking in the next few minutes it has nothing what so ever to do with me or my new best friend, "Mr Sledge Hammer", honest! :cool: zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
I've had many apps do this to me over the years. VC6 was a pain for it and Query Analyzer also has a tendency to do it too. I've never been able to figure out what causes this annoying anomaly. The only way I've found to guarantee that it won't happen, is not to have the American keyboard "driver" installed. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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It's the work of muslamic post voters... ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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i am in England, and i have an English layout keyboard sitting on my desk. one quirk of this is that when i press SHIFT + number 2 i get double quotes. however every few days VS2005 decides to be "different", "unique" and "exciting" and use what i suspect is an American keyboard layout. every other running program on my machine (and there are lots) is still using the correct English keyboard layout, but not VS2005 :mad: :mad: :mad: early signs are that SHIFT + number 2 inserts '@' rather than the expected '"' perhaps it is just me, but when coding i find it remarkably helpful for the key i type to be inserted into the source code, rather than some other, random, key. if its a helpful clue restarting the IDE fixes this problem. the last time this happened (a couple of days ago) i hunted through the options and found tools -> options -> environment -> international settings which i changed from the deeply ambigious "English" to the exciting and highly precise "Same as Microsoft Windows", but that has not helped. if you hear a load noise that sounds like a computer breaking in the next few minutes it has nothing what so ever to do with me or my new best friend, "Mr Sledge Hammer", honest! :cool: zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
when you install Windows it starts with a US keyboard as defualt then you change it to UK (well I do). Did you remove the US input option? VS might be detectign the US option is still there. The tigress is here :-D
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We could shoot him, but I'm afraid he's probably got more firepower...
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
I'm afraid he's probably got more firepower
You don't know me very well, do you?;) "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
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i am in England, and i have an English layout keyboard sitting on my desk. one quirk of this is that when i press SHIFT + number 2 i get double quotes. however every few days VS2005 decides to be "different", "unique" and "exciting" and use what i suspect is an American keyboard layout. every other running program on my machine (and there are lots) is still using the correct English keyboard layout, but not VS2005 :mad: :mad: :mad: early signs are that SHIFT + number 2 inserts '@' rather than the expected '"' perhaps it is just me, but when coding i find it remarkably helpful for the key i type to be inserted into the source code, rather than some other, random, key. if its a helpful clue restarting the IDE fixes this problem. the last time this happened (a couple of days ago) i hunted through the options and found tools -> options -> environment -> international settings which i changed from the deeply ambigious "English" to the exciting and highly precise "Same as Microsoft Windows", but that has not helped. if you hear a load noise that sounds like a computer breaking in the next few minutes it has nothing what so ever to do with me or my new best friend, "Mr Sledge Hammer", honest! :cool: zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
feline said; @helpful for the key i type to be inserted into the source code, rather than some other, random, key@ I know this is being pedantic but in all fairness consistently inserting @ when you press the key combination cannot be considered random. Frustrating :mad: yes, undesirable :confused: yes, but not random. :~ I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes
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We could shoot him, but I'm afraid he's probably got more firepower...
Software Zen:
delete this;Or worse yet a clone! :omg: I'm on-line therefore I am. JimmyRopes
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feline_dracoform wrote:
i am in England, and i have an English layout keyboard sitting on my desk
Wow, I'm sitting in America and have an English layout keyboard sitting on my desk. Seriously though VS doesn't allow you to change the keyboard layout. That would be a setting in the Control Panel. Precisely buried in Regional and Language Options. The definition of key mappings would be in there. Its probably switching to the US layout. Matt Newman
Even the very best tools in the hands of an idiot will produce something of little or no value. - Chris Meech on Idiots
rule one of working in tech support, assume less ;) the problem with your theory is that when this happens the ONLY program it effects is VS2005. open or switch to any other program, and the keyboard layout is correct. zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote:
I'm afraid he's probably got more firepower
You don't know me very well, do you?;) "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
