Windows IDE - Backspace Issue

When using the IDE under Windows, the backspace in the code editor only deletes one character at a time; therefore, holding down the backspace to delete a few characters/word/line doesn’t work. Anybody else having this issue?

I just tested and can confirm it. Because of the way I type and delete stuff I never noticed it before.

The specific issue that is being seen here is that whenever the auto-complete is triggered the keyboard repeat is blocked.

Unfortunately feedback intermittent at best from behind my company firewall. So I’ll check check for an existing case tonight and file one if I don’t see one then.

I’m not seeing this behavior on Windows 8 with Xojo.

I typed a line of junk that wouldn’t trigger auto-complete and holding down backspace worked fine.

I then typed a line of proper code and anywhere auto-complete had a candidate it would stop at that point. An interesting thing is that inconsistently if I continued to hold down the backspace key the IDE would start deleting characters again after waiting a few seconds.

This test was on Vista. I’ll check on Win7-64 in a bit.

I tried this too, but I’m not seeing it stop.

Might be a machine speed issue. The machine I am on now is deliberately hobbled for low end usability testing.

I’m using Windows 7 Ultimate x64, and experiencing the issues. Tried several times to close the IDE and re-open (thinking it was just a fluke instance thing); however, the issue reappears every time.

Related maybe? https://forum.xojo.com/1457-key-problems-at-a-german-windows-7-notebook/

FWIW I have seen this too, but not all the time. It depends on what state you’re in, we’ll try and track this down, thanks for the reports.

I’m in Virginia and I haven’t seen it. :stuck_out_tongue:

(sorry, I had to do it)

Probably not related, but in IDE Script editors, the Forward delete key doesn’t work: <https://xojo.com/issue/26946>

Perhaps <https://xojo.com/issue/24618> should be re-examined.

I see this behavior too. In the code editor only though.

Add my vote to seeing the backspace issue on a Windows 8 machine :slight_smile:

Work-around until they solve this. Shouldn’t have to do this; however, shows that it is likely a timing issue:

Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Set ‘Repeat Rate’ to 3/4 or lower.

I have the same problem, also with Eric’s workaround. In the code editor the backspace key is hardly usable using 2013r2 on a Windows 7 machine.

Thanks for this thread. Work-around works. I could not find a feedback case for this so I logged one: <https://xojo.com/issue/34465>

thankyou!

[quote=16262:@Eric Brown]Work-around until they solve this. Shouldn’t have to do this; however, shows that it is likely a timing issue:

Control Panel -> Keyboard -> Set ‘Repeat Rate’ to 3/4 or lower.

[/quote]