Does the MacBook Air keyboard have number lock capability?

The only one of my "many applications" that I could remember using keyboard shortcuts with number keys is Preview, and for that the number keys at the top of the alphabetic keyboard work just as well as the ones on the numberpad. Don't those keys work in your application?

Edit: I guess they would be a problem if the shortcut included a shift or option key.

Is there a way to emulate number lock?

Many applications use keyboard shortcuts associated with number keys on a larger keyboard. When using MacBook Air it would be very useful to have a way to address these shortcuts instead of being forced to mouse/menu search and peck.

If you have an iPhone: in iPhone install a little app called "Number Connect", in the MBA install a little app called "Number Connect", WiFi on and you have your number keyboard next to you when start both apps.

like this: 9876543210 (typed this on my iPhone).

I didn't mean to suggest that other applications didn't use shortcuts with the number keys, just that Preview was the only one I could check.

You haven't said whether the number keys at the top of the keyboard don't work in ProTools, or in your many other applications.

Jeff,

You haven't said whether the number keys at the top of the keyboard don't work...

the number keys work while typing into text edit, pages, etc. (or this forum for example, 1,2,3...)

but MBA number keys are not recognised by some applications as number entries.

I have checked this by plugging in an external keyboard with separate number section - it works just fine.

So, what i need is some means of telling the applications to accept MBA built-in numbers as such.

They are all mapped to the same unicode character, but the underlying keycodes generated in the hardware are different; otherwise, Shift 0 would type a ")" with the "0" on the numeric keypad, which it does not.

If the application is written to work with the hardware codes for the keyboard shortcut, the key on the alpha keyboard won't work. I don't know if one of the utilities made for remapping modifier keys could be used to remap the hardware code from one key to the other one. (But if it did, you would lose the symbols available with the shift and option keys.)

Still curious to know why a 0 (zero) on an extended keyboard with number pad would be different to a 0 on an MBA standard keyboard.

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The MacBook Air hasn't got a numeric keyboard, so you don't need number lock

You might find a keyboard macro program such as Keyboard Maestro useful.

The only one of my "many applications"...

ProTools is one of many applications that use number keys, ie applications, not apple toys.

Lex,

thanks, I'll try that.

There isn't any difference: extended keyboard zero in topline 0000 and on the numberpad on the right 0000 and on the built in MBP keyboard 0000