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Problem with keybord

Anonymous
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Hi

I am located i Sweden and somehow when i am using archicad my keyboard changes to an english keyboard. With that said i can not find the letters on the keyboard. that did not use to happen before but I do not know where to change that parameter.
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Anonymous
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i can feel you man, i'm having same issue...for more then 10 years

but its nothing scary just annoying

As long time user of archicad i developed fast hand reflex which in no time switch back from English to my language...in windows language bar

Its something in archicad...i never had similar problem in any other software
Anonymous
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Hi

OMG 10 years!!

This is a problem for me because i need to write everting in swedish with swedish letters which is not on the english keyboard.

I did not have this problem last week so it must be something i can change.
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
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I think the reason for this is because we have the ALT-SHIFT shortcut to place the User Origin to a new node closest to our mouse cursor.
In Windows, this same ALT-SHIFT shortcut is the default for switching between keyboard layouts.
Under Windows 7, I can show you where to turn it off (also see attached image):

1. In Control Panels, go to the Region and Language Control Panel. In that Dialog, go to the Keyboards and Language tab page.
2. Click the Change Keyboards button.
3. In the new Dialog, switch to the Advanced Key Settings tab page.
4. Click the Change Key Sequence button at the bottom.
5. In the appearing Dialog, switch both settings to the Not Assigned radio buttons. Then click OK.

After this these settings of the system should not get mixed up with ArchiCAD shortcuts.
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Anonymous
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I tryed that shortcut in win 7 and it's not working at my place.This keyboard switching thing is rare in my case and it's not representing any problem to my workflow...
Anonymous
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Hi

that was it.
I made the parameter change and then restarted the computer.
That fixed my problem.
Thank you!
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Necko, then your problem must be something different.
By the way, have you tried restarting. I don't know if it is necessary, I have not tried it just now, but you might have to restart either ArchiCAD or the system.
Loving Archicad since 1995 - Find Archicad Tips at x.com/laszlonagy
AMD Ryzen9 5900X CPU, 64 GB RAM 3600 MHz, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 500 GB NVMe SSD
2x28" (2560x1440), Windows 10 PRO ENG, Ac20-Ac28