Quick Start for Mac

Installing the Unicode Plugin for the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase® for Mac

• Shut down the VedaBase
• Assuming the VedaBase is installed in the Applications folder, right-click on Vedabase 2017 and select “Show Package Contents”

• Select drive_c (an alias to Contents\Resources\drive_c\)

• Rename “FcObj4.dll” to “FcObj4.old”
• Copy new file “FcObj4.dll” to C:\Bhaktivedanta VedaBase 2003\

• Exit the VedaBase via the Folio Views menu — File > Exit. Do not use the Mac Vedabase 2017 menu to exit the VedaBase as your changes will not be saved.

• Restart the VedaBase.

 

• Click “Tools > Customize”

• Locate “VedaBase Extension v3”
• Drag to the Toolbar the two Unicode icons and the two “plain text” icons (or whichever ones you want)

• Your icons will appear on the Toolbar.
• Click “OK.”
• Exit the VedaBase via the Folio Views menu — File > Exit. Do not usethe Mac Vedabase 2017 menu to exit the VedaBase as your changes will not be saved.
• Restart the VedaBase.

Creating keyboard shortcuts

• Click “Tools > Customize.”

• In the “Customize” window, select the “Keyboard” tab.
• In the box for “Command Category,” choose “VedaBase Extension v3.”
• Highlight the command for which you want a keyboard shortcut.

• Click in the box that says “Press new shortcut key.”
• Press the combination of keys you want to use.

• Click “Assign.”
Your key combination will appear under “Keys.”
• Press “OK.”
• You’re done.

 

Please note: This plugin is unsupported and provided “as is.” This site is not affiliated with the Bhaktivedanta Archives, publisher of the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase^®.