Civ on a MacBook Pro

[Badhron]

I have two questions.
1. With a regular keyboard the numpad can be used to quickly move the selected unit, is the any way to replicate this on the MacBook Pro's keyboard.

2. I have been having some issues with graphics where in diplomacy ony the leaders hair, crown, etc. appears on the background. Is there any way to fix this

Note: I have the 15" MacBook Pro with the 2.53 GHz i5 processor.

I didn't do an in depth search, so if either question has been answered already, just direct me there.

 

[Jarlaxe Baenre]

1: Not sure. I never used that feature, as I have not had a desk computer in 6 years.

2: Anti-aliasing. Set it off.

 

[DoctorDon]

The numeric keypad's keys can be replicated with the "fn" key and the 789/uio/jkl keys. It's doable, but not as nice as a dedicated numeric keypad. A lot of times I find myself doing control-click to move to a hex (I think that's a right-click for people with a multi-button mouse).

 

[Badhron]

The numeric keypad's keys can be replicated with the "fn" key and the 789/uio/jkl keys. It's doable, but not as nice as a dedicated numeric keypad. A lot of times I find myself doing control-click to move to a hex (I think that's a right-click for people with a multi-button mouse).

The 'fn numpad' doesn't seem to work on the new MacBooks. Using the secondary mouse button will probably be easiest, as it is a double tap on the trackpad.

 

[DoctorDon]

Strange. You might have to adjust a preference. In System Pref-->Keyboard, fiddle with the "Use F1..." preference. I have it clicked on. Other than that, I don't know. My Macbook Pro is the early 2006 version.

 

[Badhron]

Does the keyboard have the numbers printed on the corner of the corresponding keys?
The newer versions don't have that, which could correspond to it no longer being supported.

 

[s.bernbaum]

oops, wrong thread

 

[AlanH]

My recently purchased MacBook Pro has no numbers on the keys, and it is a well-known, and much-lamented, fact across the Interwebs that the embedded numeric key pad has been dropped in the latest MBPs. Here's One example discussion.

 

[DoctorDon]

Well, that's unfortunate. Did they leave fn + (arrows) = home/end/page up/down? I know for a while those combos worked even though they weren't marked on the keyboard. This may have been 2-3 years ago, though.

 

[AlanH]

It looks as if those are still there. Just tested it in Numbers on both my systems.

Fn+<arrow> on the MBP behaves like the page/home/end keys on my extended keyboard. They do the same on the extended keyboard as well. They are not shown in the Keyboard Shortcuts Prefs panel.

 

[civ_king]

The new graphics update might help

 

[Xyth]

The new graphics update might help

It doesn't sadly, I checked.