how do I assign brightness to function keys on new apple Keyboard in 10.3.9 using spark v2.1.1?

Hi again,

Did the EJECT key work? I have been immersed in another project and never got back to testing that with my new Al board moved to the 10.3 PowerMac.

Much nicer then old apple keyboard that I was using.

Agree. The best Mac board ever was the ADB M3501 "Nimitz", nicknamed for its size relative to that of a modern aircraft carrier. It had 104 discreet switches--no membrane. I kept a Nimitiz on my main computer using a Griffin ADB-to-USB adaptor until I upgraded to an i7 iMac late last year. The adaptor had no support after 10.3.9 and the manageable little glitches with it and Tiger got worse with Leo and later.

The Al boards are more than tolerable for me. My only complaint is the short stroke and fairly heavy return pressure. I never learned to type properly (an irony for someone who's made pretty good money writing), and the old Nimitz was more forgiving of my typing style (or lack thereof) than any other board regardless of make or platform.

I don't have a screen that can be dimmed or brightened, but does Increase/Decrease show up as an option here...

If not, use the AppleScript one to execute a Script...

http://groups.google.com/group/qlab/browse_thread/thread/a0f05cbd9d6c3570

to turn the brightness of the screen down to 0 / off:

tell application "System Events"
tell application "System Preferences" to reveal anchor
"displaysDisplayTab" of pane "com.apple.preference.displays"
tell process "System Preferences"
set value of slider 1 of group 2 of tab group 1 of window 1 to 0
end tell
end tell

to turn the brightness of the screen up to full:

tell application "System Events"
tell application "System Preferences" to reveal anchor
"displaysDisplayTab" of pane "com.apple.preference.displays"
tell process "System Preferences"
set value of slider 1 of group 2 of tab group 1 of window 1 to 1
end tell
end tell

NOTE - the only difference between the two scripts is the last number
which is either 0 or 1. You can also specify a number between 0 & 1. For
example, .5 = 1/2 brightness & so on.

If you use these, make sure you disable "Automatically adjust brightness
as ambient light changes or else your mid bright levels well be
overridden.

Just open the Script Editor & copy/paste the folloing part into it...

tell application "System Events"
tell application "System Preferences" to reveal anchor
"displaysDisplayTab" of pane "com.apple.preference.displays"
tell process "System Preferences"
set value of slider 1 of group 2 of tab group 1 of window 1 to 0
end tell
end tell

Then you can test it there but clicking run.

Repeat for the following one...

tell application "System Events"

tell application "System Preferences" to reveal anchor

"displaysDisplayTab" of pane "com.apple.preference.displays"

tell process "System Preferences"

set value of slider 1 of group 2 of tab group 1 of window 1 to 1

end tell

end tell

Do they work? If so save them as sseperate Scripts

Trouble is you'll likely have to change them a bit to work in 10.3, but I don't have 10.3 to help with that.

Well, I don't know what System Preferences has available in 10.3, but in Script Editor>File>Open Dictionary.. load System Preferences...

I wonder if this could be worked in some way...

http://www.splasm.com/products/productbrightness.html

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031130211651351