Delete button in IDE not working

Targets Windows
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XOJO v22r4.1 - Windows 11
The delete button is not working in the IDE.
I select an item, and try to delete, but it does not work .
It works in XOJO v21r1.1 (momentary the version I use).
Is this a bug ?

Regards
Etienne

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For some, unknown reason, they re-mapped the delete action to CTRL+BACKSPACE on windows. very strange and confusing

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Thanks for the reply.
Strange indeed !

Regards

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You mean ā€œthe Delete Keyā€ from the keyboard ?

Try fn-Deleteā€¦

You may also use the Contextual Menu (right-click)ā€¦ :innocent:

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Yes, the delete button from the keyboard.
FN-DELETE doesnā€™t work on my keyboard.
Contextual Menu (right-click), ok but strange to do 2 mouse clicks instead of only the delete button as in older versions.
CTRL-BACKSPACE works too.
Once I get used to it ā€¦ ok I think

Regards

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Sorry: on my Mac, fn-Delete works fine (since age, it works like BACKSPACE).

Strange.

I was working on a PC laptop (forget the brand), minutes ago and I had to use fn-prntscrā€¦ to make some screen shotsā€¦
I constantly make an error using alt instead of fn (because of the key locationsā€¦ I think). I do not tell you how small the prntscā€¦ layout was (and no magnifying glass when you need one !).

Cheersā€¦

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I think it was done to fix a bug where pressing delete in code would delete a navigator item, you can change it back in edit> options> general> edit menu shortcuts.

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DELETE or BACKSPACE remove Navigator item(s)ā€¦

MacBookPro m1 / Ventura / Xojo 2022r4.1

In my applications, I use Cmd-Delete as shortcut to delete (to avoid unwanted delete done while thinking removing a character from a TextField/TextArea) items, Row in a ListBox for example (where the mistake is too easy).

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Attention All

it can be modified.
Try in the IDE:
Edit
Options
General
Menu: Edit Menu Short Cuts
Edit
Find Delete and press Key Del
Uncheck Control (so you will press Del without Ctrl Key)
Press Apply and you are ready.!!!

Regards

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Unless you have an external keyboard, the delete key that your MacBookPro has is actually a Delete Left key* (Backspace). If you use a keyboard with both Delete Left and Delete Right* keys, only Delete Left will remove Navigator Items.

Previous versions of Xojo allowed both Delete Left (Backspace) and Delete Right (Delete) to remove Navigator items.

Edit: * Iā€™m not sure if the keys are called that but my extended mac keyboard both say ā€˜deleteā€™ but one delete the character at left and the other the character at right

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You can modify the IDE shortcut keys as described above.
I am a windows user but i think above solution will work for mac users also.

:slight_smile:

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Thank you but I canā€™t find a way to configure the IDE shortcut to use both Backspace and Delete as before. At least for mac.

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The ā€œdeleteā€ key is the one that removes characters to the right, while the ā€œbackspaceā€ key is the one removing characters to the left.

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Thank you Arnaud, that is the way I learned while using a PC as the keyboard was labeled as such.

This is how the keyboard Iā€™m using is labeled:
image

The left delete = Backspace, the right delete = Delete.

Previous versions of Xojo: both keys removed Navigator items. Now only one or the other removes Navigator items.

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