what's a "gray" key?

coldrick · Post by **coldrick** » 2005 Feb 11, 04:44

The doco keeps referring to this, but I have no idea what it is. Something like the "any" key?

Thanks,
David

Steve · Post by **Steve** » 2005 Feb 11, 07:24

On the original 101-key PC keyboards, the numeric keypad section on the right was literally colored grey/gray. While the characters printed on the keys match those found on the top row, their bios values are different: grey "+": 4E2B, white "+": 4E2B.

Always thought that was a bit weird...

Steve · Post by **Steve** » 2005 Feb 11, 07:27

Oops, that second entry didn't paste correctly:

grey "+": 4E2B, white "+": 0D2B

coldrick · Post by **coldrick** » 2005 Feb 13, 01:42

Aha - so on my laptop, gray = blue (the Fn key that one uses to get keypad stuff).

Thanks,
David

coldrick · Post by **coldrick** » 2005 Feb 13, 01:48

Nope, doesn't work for me

Gandolf · Post by **Gandolf** » 2005 Feb 13, 08:55

The other name for grey keys is NumPad keys so on a laptop the grey keys are the imbedded NumPad keys.