On 10/12/2007, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and the click *exactly* coincides with the letter being recognised by > the machine. There is no need to bottom out one of this keyboards. On > a modern keyboard, try *very* slowly pressing a key while watching the > screen. You can get the key to "click" without causing an event. That > means that it you are touch typing, you are relying on the letter > showing on the screen to determine when to stop pressing the key > instead of relying on the tactile feedback.
My Dell Inspiron laptop, like most laptops, registers the key before it passes the tactile bump. Also, I just tried your suggestion on a three day old Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 700 keyboard, and I got the letter before the bump. What I mean by 'bump' is that both of these keyboards bottom out, but one must get over a 'hill' of pressure to do so. So once the key has descended, say X distance, then it is assured to also get to Y (X<Y). The key register distance seems to be between X and Y. > The commodore keyboard pretty much sucked, I'm sad to admit as I still > love my old commodore... :( As bad as the C64 was, I loved the keyboard on the C128. Learned BASIC on it :) Wow, I'd like to play Starglider again... Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
