Microsoft keyboard F lock

[Ray]

Have a new MS3000 keyboard. There are no F keys but there is an "F
lock"key. Can anyone tell me what it does? And what do you do when
instructed to press and F key?

 

[VanguardLH]

Have a new MS3000 keyboard. There are no F keys but there is an "F
lock"key.

http://www.quietpc.com/files/images/products/ms-desktop3000-uk-large.jpg

Guess you must be color-blind in the blue end of the color spectrum;
however, if so, how'd you see the blue caption on the F-lock button?

 

[Ray]

"VanguardLH" wrote in message

Have a new MS3000 keyboard. There are no F keys but there is an "F
lock"key.
http://www.quietpc.com/files/images/products/ms-desktop3000-uk-large.jpg

Guess you must be color-blind in the blue end of the color spectrum;
however, if so, how'd you see the blue caption on the F-lock button?

Thank you. You're right. I am colorblind and I don't see blue with the lock
on or off. The caption on my F lock key is in white letters.

 

[Paul]

"VanguardLH" wrote in message

Thank you. You're right. I am colorblind and I don't see blue with the
lock on or off. The caption on my F lock key is in white letters.

In grayscale, the function key row looks like this.

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/8690/ms3000.gif

Paul

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

"VanguardLH" wrote in message

Thank you. You're right. I am colorblind and I don't see blue with the lock
on or off. The caption on my F lock key is in white letters.

Get someone with a steady hand to put white paint or something similar
on those key labels. Or it might even be possible to buy replacement
keytops, though a keyboard might be cheaper if it's not a laptop.

Even someone who isn't color blind can have a problem when they are old
enough that the lens of their eye yellows a bit and blocks blue light.

It's not the smartest design choice by the manufacturer :-(

 

[James Silverton]

Get someone with a steady hand to put white paint or something similar
on those key labels. Or it might even be possible to buy replacement
keytops, though a keyboard might be cheaper if it's not a laptop.

Even someone who isn't color blind can have a problem when they are old
enough that the lens of their eye yellows a bit and blocks blue light.

It's not the smartest design choice by the manufacturer :-(

My Logitech K520 wireless has a large key marked FN in brown to use the
non-F functions. I don't think that there is a way to lock the FN key
but I'd be glad to know of one.

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James Silverton, Potomac

I'm *not* (e-mail address removed)

 

[Ray]

http://www.quietpc.com/files/images/products/ms-desktop3000-uk-large.jpg

Thank you. You're right. I am colorblind and I don't see blue with the
lock
on or off. The caption on my F lock key is in white letters.

Get someone with a steady hand to put white paint or something similar
on those key labels. Or it might even be possible to buy replacement
keytops, though a keyboard might be cheaper if it's not a laptop.

Even someone who isn't color blind can have a problem when they are old
enough that the lens of their eye yellows a bit and blocks blue light.

It's not the smartest design choice by the manufacturer :-(

 

[Ray]

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message

"VanguardLH" wrote in message

Thank you. You're right. I am colorblind and I don't see blue with the
lock
on or off. The caption on my F lock key is in white letters.

Get someone with a steady hand to put white paint or something similar
on those key labels. Or it might even be possible to buy replacement
keytops, though a keyboard might be cheaper if it's not a laptop.

Even someone who isn't color blind can have a problem when they are old
enough that the lens of their eye yellows a bit and blocks blue light.

It's not the smartest design choice by the manufacturer :-(

 

[Dominique]

"Gene E. Bloch" <[email protected]> écrivait

Even someone who isn't color blind can have a problem when they are old
enough that the lens of their eye yellows a bit and blocks blue light.

It's not the smartest design choice by the manufacturer :-(

I agree and programmers and webmasters should think about this too, I
can't recall how many times I saw WEB pages almost unreadable because of a
bad choice of letters colors against background colors.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

"Gene E. Bloch" <[email protected]> écrivait


I agree and programmers and webmasters should think about this too, I
can't recall how many times I saw WEB pages almost unreadable because of a
bad choice of letters colors against background colors.

OT, but it reminds me of an event around 1989. I was debugging a
program, and the text suddenly disappeared. Eventually I discovered that
I had (inadvertently!) changed the text from white on blue to blue on
blue.

Definitely a bad design choice

 

[richard]

Have a new MS3000 keyboard. There are no F keys but there is an "F
lock"key. Can anyone tell me what it does? And what do you do when
instructed to press and F key?

By the photo given, and the positioning of the "f" numbers above the other
keys, pressing "f lock" then one of those keys, would then cause that
function to acvtivate. Kind of like using the "numlock" key to turn on the
numeric key pad.

I had an acer laptop which did about the same thing.

 

[Dominique]

OT, but it reminds me of an event around 1989. I was debugging a
program, and the text suddenly disappeared. Eventually I discovered that
I had (inadvertently!) changed the text from white on blue to blue on
blue.

Definitely a bad design choice

LOL :-D

 

[Ed Cryer]

OT, but it reminds me of an event around 1989. I was debugging a
program, and the text suddenly disappeared. Eventually I discovered that
I had (inadvertently!) changed the text from white on blue to blue on
blue.

Definitely a bad design choice

Good way to send emails in invisible ink, though!

Ed

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Good way to send emails in invisible ink, though!

Ed

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

You're right! As you can see from the above, it worked!

Thanks.

 

[Ed Cryer]

You're right! As you can see from the above, it worked!

Thanks.

I doubt you could do it in plain text. You'd need HTML.
And don't try to argue that you had somehow embedded some words with
ink/paper same colour. I've looked at the message source.

Ed

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I doubt you could do it in plain text. You'd need HTML.
And don't try to argue that you had somehow embedded some words with
ink/paper same colour. I've looked at the message source.

Ed

I can't tell if you're upstaging my joke or not getting it

If the former: Geez, man, no matter how hard I try, I just can't fool
you...

If the latter, well, it wouldn't be the first time a joke of mine was
overly opaque...

 

[Ed Cryer]

I can't tell if you're upstaging my joke or not getting it

If the former: Geez, man, no matter how hard I try, I just can't fool
you...

If the latter, well, it wouldn't be the first time a joke of mine was
overly opaque...

I'm in the dark too. I have a horrible feeling that there's some
misunderstanding here and I should let it rest. But I'll try one piece
of Sherlock Holmes style investigation.
What does "the above" refer to in your "As you can see from the above"?
And I assure you I'm not trying to upstage anything; I'm merely trying
to sort out a genuine malentendu.

Ed

 

[Roy Smith]

Ha ha funny one Ed. Did you by chance sell the Emperor his new clothes?


--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Thunderbird 5.0
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:43:09 PM

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I'm in the dark too. I have a horrible feeling that there's some
misunderstanding here and I should let it rest. But I'll try one piece
of Sherlock Holmes style investigation.
What does "the above" refer to in your "As you can see from the above"?
And I assure you I'm not trying to upstage anything; I'm merely trying
to sort out a genuine malentendu.

Ed

OK, time to clarify.

I purposely sent an empty reply in response to your remark about sending
e-mails in invisible ink, which I had assumed you meant as humor.

Then I rep[lied to the empty reply pretending not that it was empty, but
that my typing was invisible (white on white, I guess).

So by "the above", I meant my quoted first reply in which my typing was
supposedly invisible.

It comes pretty close to being a practical joke, now that I think about
it, and I happen to *hate* practical jokes, so please accept my apology.

And yes, it's an example of an overly opaque joke. It was meant in a
spirit of fun, so you have to laugh now