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Title: Realforce capslock key
Post by: Yuuki on Mon, 28 January 2013, 14:03:26

I don't know if it has already be said but I noticed something strange today.

I have at work 2 rf 87. One is a 10th anniversary, variable silent. The other is a rf 87 black variable.
On both, capslock and ctrl are inversed.
When I activate capslock, I noticed that only the letters are affected. So I can type something "normally" without having to "inverse my brain" for the other keys. I find that behaviour very neat.

At home I use a rf 105. I just tried the same thing but capslock has the same behaviour it always had. Just activate shift on every keys.
Is it something exclusive to the 87 ? Is it the same on other board that use topre switches ? (like HHKB)

Title: Re: Realforce capslock key
Post by: daerid on Mon, 28 January 2013, 14:08:16

I've never used a board that behaved that way. And I've used a lot of boards.

Whenever I turn Caps on, hitting "a" enters "A", and hitting "1" enters "1", not "!".

Title: Re: Realforce capslock key
Post by: jabar on Mon, 28 January 2013, 14:22:50

I *think* my old Apple Extended Keyboard II worked like that, where capslock was a universal shift key (1 became !).

Title: Re: Realforce capslock key
Post by: Yuuki on Tue, 29 January 2013, 03:15:58

I didn't try with the digit But i did some testing :

WITH CAPSLOCK ACTIVATED :
QWERTYUIOP123456,./;'[]

It seems it does the same for F1 F12 keys (tried with some shortcuts)

Does anyone experience the same behaviour with a 87u ?
I have only a 10th and a black 87 here, and the 105 at home. So I can't tell if its 87 exclusive or not.

Title: Re: Realforce capslock key
Post by: koralatov on Tue, 29 January 2013, 09:20:58

Quote from: jabar on Mon, 28 January 2013, 14:22:50

I *think* my old Apple Extended Keyboard II worked like that, where capslock was a universal shift key (1 became !).

It doesn’t do that on my ISO/UK AEKII, or my ANSI AEKI.  The capslock key acts correctly.  Both were made in Ireland, though, so US/Mexican-made ones may act differently. 

Title: Re: Realforce capslock key
Post by: Yuuki on Tue, 29 January 2013, 11:37:49

So no one is reproducing ?

Title: Re: Realforce capslock key
Post by: metalliqaz on Tue, 29 January 2013, 11:46:20

Everything works normally on my RF87u.  I thought you were confused about the ctrl/caps swap,  but I've never seen a keyboard that treats caps loxk as shift

Title: Re: Realforce capslock key
Post by: Yuuki on Tue, 29 January 2013, 12:00:17

it's more like capslock only affect keys with letter, which is nice

Title: Re: Realforce capslock key
Post by: lazerpointer on Tue, 29 January 2013, 13:35:59

This is how it always is, regardless of what keyboard you use.

Title: Re: Realforce capslock key
Post by: isman on Tue, 29 January 2013, 15:18:57

As a french myself, I have to add to the OP that in France, when caps lock is on, it behaves
Like a universal Shift upon the entire keyboard, don't really know if this feature is bound to the AZERTY ISO layout or more globally to euro boards.

Title: Re: Realforce capslock key
Post by: Yuuki on Tue, 29 January 2013, 15:43:29

software side.
Mystery solved.

Thx