Talk:Function key
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A wonderful little article. My thanks to the author. Kjb 20:25, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] F13 and up on PCs?
In my time I've seen a handful of PC applications that expose in their UIs support for F keys up to 16. At first I assumed that these were a feature of the latest generation of PC keyboards, but such keyboards have remained nowhere to be seen ever since (at least in my experience).
The Windows API even defines virtual key codes up to F24. Has any PC keyboard ever been made with more than 12 function keys? Or are these codes all just reserved in case somebody makes such a thing? -- Smjg 23:27, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
- I have seen the ability to program up to F24, and to get there you use the Alt+F12 or Shift+F12 (or what ever key you were looking for) but if I am not mistaken, back in the 80s, they actually had keyboards with more than the current standard 12 F-Keys, I was still pretty new to computers at the time, and I was a Mac/Apple user, but for some reason I remember some of the IBM computers with more Fkeys than others (Macs had none). If someone can find a picture of one of these keyboards that would be good, I couldn't. --Billy Nair (talk) 16:24, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] How to program F keys
This article states that F keys can be programmed but does not give any information on how to do it or any refence links to sites or programs that would do it. For example, can I program F2 to be my address, F3 my city, F4 my zip code, F5 my phone number, etc. as these are requested constantly by web sites? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.15.255.227 (talk) 21:22, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- I think what is meant is that application developers can program the keys to do whatever they like in their applications - how to do this would depend on the operating system (among other things). But it's no different from other keys in this respect - so I'm not sure why this comment was added. -- Smjg (talk) 21:29, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
