Yesterday in The keys are so hot, they're smoking! , I did something that you won't see me doing very often. I waxed on at length about a feature as a really exciting thing for people to use. I'll now admit that when I did that, it was mostly a setup. Because today I am going to prove that: I wouldn't make the worst tester in the world Even Vista has a bug or two in it The "Hot keys for input languages" feature has weird bugs in it So we will start by adding three keyboards under three different languages to my usual setup -- in this case Latvian, Lithuanian, and Luxembourgish ( The "L" Word languages in Europe): This will give us the following view in that Advanced Key Settings tab: Because this is Vista we will get the three shift states and twelve character choices: The two characters at the end are ~ (U+0073, aka TILDE) and ` (U+0060, aka GRAVE ACCENT). We're gonna need a few more keyboards here for what I want to do. Let's go back and add three more, under those same languages (just for fun): Okay, this will give us the list to die for: Six entries plus the English I started with. Okay now, to quote Antonio Banderas from Desperado right before he started shooting up the bar, Let's Play . Among these six keyboards, let's use that C hange Key Sequence... dialog, to add hot keys to each of them: Okay, do you see What we have here? Ctrl + ~ Ctrl + ` Ctrl + Shift ~ Ctrl + Shift + ` Left Alt + Shift ~ Left Alt + Shift + ` Now if you ...
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Yesterday in The keys are so hot, they're smoking! , I did something that you won't see me doing very often. I waxed on at length about a feature as a really exciting thing for people to use. I'll now admit that when I did that, it was mostly a setup. Because today I am going to prove that: I wouldn't make the worst tester in the world Even Vista has a bug or two in it The "Hot keys for input languages" feature has weird bugs in it So we will start by adding three keyboards under three different languages to my usual setup -- in this case Latvian, Lithuanian, and Luxembourgish ( The "L" Word languages in Europe): This will give us the following view in that Advanced Key Settings tab: Because this is Vista we will get the three shift states and twelve character choices: The two characters at the end are ~ (U+0073, aka TILDE) and ` (U+0060, aka GRAVE ACCENT). We're gonna need a few more keyboards here for what I want to do. Let's go back and add three more, under those same languages (just for fun): Okay, this will give us the list to die for: Six entries plus the English I started with. Okay now, to quote Antonio Banderas from Desperado right before he started shooting up the bar, Let's Play . Among these six keyboards, let's use that C hange Key Sequence... dialog, to add hot keys to each of them: Okay, do you see What we have here? Ctrl + ~ Ctrl + ` Ctrl + Shift ~ Ctrl + Shift + ` Left Alt + Shift ~ Left Alt + Shift + ` Now if you ...