Yves,
Actually I am using the system in English language mode! But I have the "option" of switching to japanese text-entry available to me. With this option availabe, the system has "kotoeri" which is the Japanese text entry "extension."
With kotoeri available, and with Macs sold in Japan:
- on the left of the spacebar is a key for choosing entry one-byte english characters
- on the right of the spacebar is a key for choosing entry of two-byte japanese characters
- pressing "command-space" switches between languages and text entry modes within kotoeri, so that people who use korean, chinese, arabic or others could toggle from one to the other, etc.
I suspect that the problem is connected to the japanese text entry or the Japanese keyboard as this seems to be only happening to my partner and I. Also we use the space bar alot to swich between A and B sets, and the spacebar's proximity to these other keys seems kind of suspicious.
The one thing that makes me doubt this was that the other night the problem cropped up just after I started using number keys to change media within a layer, and then tried to do something in the interface only to find that it didn't work anymore. Of course, I may still have been hitting the space bar a bit here and there, but I don't remember that for sure.
I'll try to pay closer attention next time!
-b
PS - That reminds me. A Japanese club music did a feature on VJs and getting started in VJing recently and we had a small interview along with about four other teams. Unfortunately they got alot of their facts wrong and we were quoted out of context a bit, but they did put in comments about how we had gotten back into VJing largely because of Modul8 and its potential and how our style works perfectly with the software..." and that was about it. I had spoken for a bit about the software, so I was glad something got in.