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October 29, 2003

Just wanted to update everyone. Progress is being made with the Panther version of uControl. I finally coerced uControl's kernel extension to load into Panther today. Unfortunately, it's impotent i.e. none of the features work save Real Function Keys. I don't know if it's the gcc changes or IOHIDSystem changes that are responsible. But at least it's loading, which makes me feel better.

Have I mentioned I hate C++? Well, I do. The only thing I hate more is probably, well, caps lock.

Posted by shane at 02:57 AM | TrackBack

October 24, 2003

I've been getting a lot email regarding uControl not working on Panther. Sadly, I haven't touched Panther yet. I've wanted to, but I haven't really had the extra partition to spare. So I'll probably start on that work tomorrow. I figure if I install Panther, it'll force me to deal with it. Either that or I'll have to start dragging my happy hacker keyboard around. Hopefully, it won't take too long. But I wanted to release uControl one last time on 10.2, so 10.2 users would have a working Real Function Keys feature. Thank Alex Harper for that one.

Alex Harper has a lot of other interesting things at ragingmenace.com. For those of you who like the scroll wheel emulation feature in uControl, Alex refined that feature even further in Side Track. It digs a little deeper and allows you to use your track pad as a scroll wheel without holding down any keys. I encourage everyone to check it out.

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