keyboard input in non-unicode app?

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by suzerain, Jul 27, 2009.

  1. suzerain

    suzerain Bit poster

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    Hi there. I'll put my question first, and the explanation after:

    On a MacBook Pro, how does Windows see the keyboard when inside Parallels Desktop? Does it think it's a USB device?

    I am having a compatibility issue with banking software for a Chinese bank (China Merchants Bank; I am an expat living in Beijing). I cannot get it to work under Parallels. When I try to type into the password field, the app seems to be continually losing focus, and it keeps auto-filling the password up to the number of keystrokes you typed each time you type a keystroke.

    This app is a "non-Unicode" app under Windows XP, which means it is controlled by that advanced setting under the language settings (I've told XP to see all non-Unicode apps as China PRC).

    Once when launching the app, it referred me to a problem code saying that on a laptop I cannot use a USB keyboard with it, and I am trying to figure out if that's because Parallels sees the keyboard as a USB one, or if it was perceiving my Kensington USB dongle as a keyboard.

    Obscure problem, I know...I just want to be able to use online banking, but here in China, banks use proprietary software for online banking rather than Web sites. Trying to figure out why this won't work under Parallels.
     

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