Delete on Mac

[ictfacilitator]

If you select an object and press the delete shortcut key nothing happens.... is the shortcut supposed to work.

[benjamin_friesen]

Yes! I agree. Please bring back this function.

[Mark Herbert]

For whatever reason, Apple have always labeled the backspace key "delete", and the right delete key with a right arrow with an cross inside.

Both Backspace/Delete and Right Delete used to delete objects in Activstudio for Mac. Only Right delete will delete an object in Inspire - which on a Mac laptop is Fn+Delete.

I hope the old way comes back! :)

[LisaD]

Me, too! :p

Lisa

[samadmin]

Hi. That's not the only key problem.
Command-Q doesn't quit the program.
This is one of those key commands that you apply without thinking about, because you did it many thousand times. So, at home or end of lesson you just go to the computer, press quit and suddenly a dialog about questions pops up.
So please, let us have the most normal key commands at least. It would be very sad if Mac users would have to buy a key command editor just to use Inspire.

[davidlloyd]

Having finally graduated to a Mac for work, I hope so too!

[Mark Herbert]

Hi. That's not the only key problem.
Command-Q doesn't quit the program.
This is one of those key commands that you apply without thinking about, because you did it many thousand times. So, at home or end of lesson you just go to the computer, press quit and suddenly a dialog about questions pops up.
So please, let us have the most normal key commands at least. It would be very sad if Mac users would have to buy a key command editor just to use Inspire.

Thankfully this one is getting fixed. From this thread: http://www.prometheanplanet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8106

We have discussed this point again in Innovations and agree that Cmd-Q, Cmd-Shift-Q and Cmd-H will defer to standard Mac keyboard shortcuts.
Thankyou very much for your feedback and for helping us to decide the best way forward here :)

As I said in the other thread, I sure hope this also includes Cmd-P, Cmd-M, Cmd-Shift-S and Cmd-Shift-Z.

What I'd love to see right now is a sticky thread of what will be fixed in the next version. We're hoping we can roll ActivInspire out, but have a number of deal-breaking bugs at the moment (including keyboard shortcuts, printing to non-default printers, and a number of issues with accessing the resource library).

Cheers,
Mark