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More => Old Versions => JRiver Media Center 25 for Mac => Topic started by: tyler69 on June 01, 2019, 03:51:36 am

Title: Add keyboard shortcut to delete files
Post by: tyler69 on June 01, 2019, 03:51:36 am
In macOS using CMD+Backspace usually can be used to delete highlighted files. Can we have this shortcut also in MC?
Title: Re: Add keyboard shortcut to delete files
Post by: bob on June 11, 2019, 11:17:34 am
In macOS using CMD+Backspace usually can be used to delete highlighted files. Can we have this shortcut also in MC?
You can use the delete key...
Title: Re: Add keyboard shortcut to delete files
Post by: tyler69 on June 11, 2019, 12:18:33 pm
Where would that be on a MacBook?
Title: Re: Add keyboard shortcut to delete files
Post by: JimH on June 11, 2019, 01:11:37 pm
Wait.  You have a computer that doesn't have a delete key?  ;)

On my Pixelbook, delete is the Chrome key and backspace.
Title: Re: Add keyboard shortcut to delete files
Post by: blgentry on June 11, 2019, 05:28:33 pm
Delete is similar to backspace.  Backspace deletes the character behind the cursor.  "Delete" deletes the character in front of the cursor.  PC keyboards have had delete for a long time.  Maybe since the beginning?  But Macs didn't see the need for quite a while.  Now they have it too, but it's a tiny bit hidden.  Delete is accessed via Function-Backspace on a Mac laptop.

MC has a pretty good keyboard remapping file where you can make your own shortcuts for various things.  In this case I'd probably just use Function-Backspace, but you might be able to remap this to an additional key if you want to.  I'm just not sure what the core command is.  I think it might be "Media Center Delete", which is core command 21004.  But I'm not sure as I have not tested it.

Brian.

Title: Re: Add keyboard shortcut to delete files
Post by: JimH on June 11, 2019, 06:16:16 pm
PC keyboards have had delete for a long time.  Maybe since the beginning?
Not that it matters much, but here's the original IBM PC keyboard.  The Delete key is at the lower right.

It was considered a pretty deluxe keyboard at the time.
Title: Re: Add keyboard shortcut to delete files
Post by: Scobie on June 11, 2019, 06:37:06 pm
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Delete is accessed via Function-Backspace on a Mac laptop

...and I've just discovered on my iMac!  The things you learn in here....