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Key Viewer - 1.0

makes it easy to call up the Keyboard Viewer

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All Time:	(5.0)
This Version:	(5.0)
Current Version:	1.0
Release Date:	2007-05-16
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	3,708
Downloads (all versions):	3,708
Price:	FREE

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Product Description:

Old-time Mac users will remember the Desktop Accessory called Key Caps. Key Caps made it very simple to look up how to get your keyboard to input special characters. Apple dropped Key Caps in Mac OS X 10.2. So, I made Key Viewer. Apple still ships the Keyboard Viewer as part of OS X, but without Key Caps, there is not a simple method of invoking it. Key Viewer is simply a wrapper around a script that makes it easy to call up the Keyboard Viewer.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

only tested with 10.4.x

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Not what I'd hoped, sadly - - Version: 1.0, 2/22/2008 06:23PM PST

othercstuff

The keyboard came right up for me. But Keycaps was different. I could use it to see which keys in which fonts had extra characters on it. I don't see how to select fonts with this keyboard thing - and the pull down menu only mystifies me. With keycaps, I could call up fonts I'd done myself in Fontagrapher and remember where the devil I hid the easter eggs. Anybody know of a program that does this? I have several fonts that I knew had option + key combinations that had easter eggs - but this keyboard viewer doesn't help me at all. Doesn't change when my font changes -

Do I just not get it?

Here's the source code - Version: 1.0, 5/20/2007 10:54AM PST

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sagefire

Oh, since this is such a simple application, I thought I shoud give you all the source code:
#!/bin/sh
open /System/Library/Components/KeyboardViewer.component/Contents/SharedSupport/KeyboardViewerServer.app

Stolen? - Version: 1.0, 5/18/2007 08:32AM PST

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Christian Buerli

The same concept and (almost) the same name as my small application:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/23422

The difference is: Your application is twice as big and not Universal.