All I wanted to _state_ was, that there is a BUG in BIAB regarding different keyboard layouts and all I wanted to _hear_ is "yes, you're right, bug confirmed, will be fixed in next release."

And as I said in my first post, the reason for this thread is: PG support asked me to post it to the forums. I don't know why they didn't simply tell me that they filed the BUG and will fix it in the next release.


I must be from a different planet.

Please tell me: Where is the logic in having the text area below the style button behave differently than the rest of the application?

Did you read my posts? I actually CAN enter #, but only when pressing Ctrl+F2 on a chord, not when quick-entering chords by simply typing.

Atari... that's a piece of history. After almost 20 years, it's time for legacy code cleanup, IMHO.

Key remapping? Can be had for free with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. I used it to make my UK-Keyboard enter Umlauts like ä,ö,ü by pressing Alt-Gr+a,o,u, but..... I don't really want to remap the #-key to 3...

And sure, # is not a real sharp, but why does BIAB show #'s in the lead sheet? Hm... maybe because there is no ASCII-code for a real sharp sign...

Pressing the 3-key without Shift will enter a 3, not a sharp. BIAB converts the 3 into sharp after pressing enter. But that's a different thing.

3 does not look like a sharp. # does. And # is used as a sharp in almost every other application I remember down to the Microsoft DOS times.

The only reason for having 3 behaving like sharp is: convenience for users with US-Keyboards.

Second: why not support the #-key when there is one?

All of this could be easily achived if BIAB would use standard keyboard access like many other windows applications.


And - I am repeating myself here - but this keyboard issue also occures with the Ear Training Games, which are hard-coded to US layout, too. Thus, I have to press Z instead of Y on a German keyboard in order to trigger the lowest C-note. I reported this half a year ago, but it has not been fixed yet.


For a Software Company with international sales, proper localization (in terms of keyboard layout, not interface language) of their products is a must have, not a "feature".

Just imagine Microsoft Word hard-coded to US-Layout....

Cheers, Andi