# TextArea and the other Delete key

**URL:** <https://forum.xojo.com/t/textarea-and-the-other-delete-key/20897>\
**Category:** Windows\
**Created:** [December 12, 2014, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/textarea-and-the-other-delete-key/20897 "2014-12-12T08:48:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Emile_Schwarz)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/textarea-and-the-other-delete-key/20897/1 "2014-12-12T08:48:12Z")

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The other Delete key (delete the character at the right of the Text Cursor) does not works on my laptop/Windows 8.1, current Xojo.

And you ?

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**Author:** ![Albin\_Kiland](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/albin_kiland/32/1028_2.png) [@Albin\_Kiland](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Albin_Kiland)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/textarea-and-the-other-delete-key/20897/2 "2014-12-12T08:50:15Z")

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Fyi:  
You mean that the Delete key does not work?  
The usual “delete” key is actually called Backspace 😉

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**Author:** ![Tim\_Hare](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/tim_hare/32/176_2.png) [@Tim\_Hare](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Tim_Hare)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/textarea-and-the-other-delete-key/20897/3 "2014-12-12T08:53:12Z")

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Works for me.

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**Author:** ![Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Emile_Schwarz)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/textarea-and-the-other-delete-key/20897/4 "2014-12-12T12:53:54Z")

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No, I do not meant Backspace, but the other Delete key: the one that deletes the character at the right of the Cursor. That what I wrote far above.

IN TEXTAREA of Xojo compiled applications, not elsewhere.

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**Author:** ![Tim\_Hare](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/tim_hare/32/176_2.png) [@Tim\_Hare](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Tim_Hare)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/textarea-and-the-other-delete-key/20897/5 "2014-12-12T18:50:34Z")

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Still works for me. Any code in KeyDown? Try it in a new project?

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**Author:** ![Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@Emile\_Schwarz](https://forum.xojo.com/u/Emile_Schwarz)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/textarea-and-the-other-delete-key/20897/6 "2014-12-13T08:10:51Z")

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Code in KeyDown seeks for Option-Esc to convert it to Tab, nothing else.

On OS X, fn-delete works perfectly, but the underlying code is different.

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/1X/455b4dcc0e61630e9f81940004ddffa49c432a46.png) [@system](https://forum.xojo.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/textarea-and-the-other-delete-key/20897/7 "2020-10-29T17:31:47Z")

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