Take Care !!! USB Num. Keypad not fully compatible with true Keyboard!

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Micla

Let know that :

There is a strong lack of compatibility with the newly produced USB
Numerical Key pad made for portable computers (which normally reproduce
the rightest part of a keyboard).

.... The key "5" doesn't work - at least with scan code generation - if
"Num Lock" is not selected.

THIS IS NOT A NORMAL BEHAVIOR !!!!

Of course, the key "5" has no recognised behavior - when NumLock is
disabled - for text line editing, such as all the others of this keypad.

But more than 50% of the games recognise perfectly this key, and use it
for different reasons.

The simplest example that I have verified is Combat Flight Simulator
which uses this key to stabilise the flight of an aircraft in the
right-left leaning axis.

So : "KeyPading" or "Gaming", its a choice ...!!!

Hey, you, USB accessories producers : please don't miss your jobs and
try a bit more in depth your products before putting them on the market,
so as to avoid such mistakes !!!!

ML.

PS : Sorry for non english-speaking forums, I think it was worth to warn
you too, even in the language you don't use every day.
 
Micla said:
Let know that :

There is a strong lack of compatibility with the newly produced USB
Numerical Key pad made for portable computers (which normally
reproduce the rightest part of a keyboard).

... The key "5" doesn't work - at least with scan code generation - if
"Num Lock" is not selected.

THIS IS NOT A NORMAL BEHAVIOR !!!!

Of course, the key "5" has no recognised behavior - when NumLock is
disabled - for text line editing, such as all the others of this
keypad.

But more than 50% of the games recognise perfectly this key, and use
it for different reasons.

The simplest example that I have verified is Combat Flight Simulator
which uses this key to stabilise the flight of an aircraft in the
right-left leaning axis.

So : "KeyPading" or "Gaming", its a choice ...!!!

Hey, you, USB accessories producers : please don't miss your jobs and
try a bit more in depth your products before putting them on the
market, so as to avoid such mistakes !!!!

ML.

PS : Sorry for non english-speaking forums, I think it was worth to
warn you too, even in the language you don't use every day.
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It appears that English isn't a language you speak every day either. What
"USB numeric keypad" - I can think of at least 20 different brands! And
what, exactly, does this have to do with Windows XP? Just because you're
having a problem with whatever-it-is, doesn't mean to say everyone is. Have
you thought that it could just be your system?!
 
king has spoken =|

Miss Perspicacia Tick said:
It appears that English isn't a language you speak every day either. What
"USB numeric keypad" - I can think of at least 20 different brands! And
what, exactly, does this have to do with Windows XP? Just because you're
having a problem with whatever-it-is, doesn't mean to say everyone is. Have
you thought that it could just be your system?!
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