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Postby JediSonic » Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:52 am

I'm working on a new 3D modeler called "Finesse 2.0", the sequel to my last attempt at such a project which was called "Finesse 3D". If anyone really wants to download the first one just for kicks, you can get it from this page which is extrememly old and is missing most of the images :lol:

Anyway this poll is just so I can figure out how many users' keyboards do or do not have the "home" and "end" keys directly above the arrow keys on their keyboard. I plan on treating those two keys as additional arrow keys to deal with movement in the 3rd dimension in this program (try running the old one to see what I mean) but if I'm going to distribute it on the internet I want most people to be able to use it as conveniently as I can! Therefore, if a lot of people seem to have a different keyboard setup I might put some other options for keyboard setup on there.

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Postby shooraijin » Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:56 am

I'm sure there won't be a Mac version (ahem), but on current Mac USB keyboards, HOME and END are in line. Now you know.
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Postby Kenshin17 » Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:34 am

My laptops keyboard has the home and enter keys a row to the right of the arrows. The page up and page down keys are between them. However, the keyboard I am using now (cause my laptop one is broke) has them in line with the arrow keys.
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Postby JediSonic » Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:09 am

er, no there won't be a Mac version, sorry :sweat:

I have a mac friend who always gets mad at my programs for being windows-based but I dont own a mac and dont know how to program for one.
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Postby inkhana » Sat Jan 15, 2005 3:20 pm

Yeah, on my keyboard home and end are directly in line with the up and down keys.


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Postby Arnobius » Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:01 pm

JediSonic wrote:er, no there won't be a Mac version, sorry :sweat:

I have a mac friend who always gets mad at my programs for being windows-based but I dont own a mac and dont know how to program for one.

I guess that's what Virtual PC is for ;)
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Postby Jman » Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:07 pm

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Postby LorentzForce » Sun Jan 16, 2005 4:24 pm

Both of my computer keyboards, laptop and desktop, are both aligned.
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Postby JediSonic » Sun Jan 16, 2005 7:49 pm

wow! Thanks, guys.. you've taken a load off my mind :thumb:
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Postby mechana2015 » Wed Jan 19, 2005 12:44 am

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