by JMM72 (Posted Mon Jun 27, 2016 1:00 am)
I hope you can follow me. While delete doesn't work by itself, there's a way to make it work, as in modern keyboards there are two delete keys. One is in they numeric keypad, and the other is in the access cluster just over the stand-alone arrow keys (the cluster usually has 6 keys: insert, delete, home, end, pgup and pgdown).
Under Windows 7 64 Bit, using spanish keyboard just in case it is important.
I uninstalled XnViewMP, and installed 0.79, still preserving the old configuration files. If you go to configuration, interface, shortcuts, and assign to cmd_Delete (under view mode) the key Del, it will not work. However, if you assign the dot key (which in the numeric keypad shares key with delete), it will work. It's independent of the state of Num Lock, btw. Not only the one in the numeric keypad, but also the other one above the arrow keys. So strange. It puzzles me how pressing delete sends a dot, but it also puzzles me that the normal assigment of Del works in explorer mode but not in view mode, as if keys are handled completely differently in each mode.
If you install again 0.80, the above trick doesn't work, but installing over 0.79 makes it work again.
I hope this quirky trick sheds some light on what's happening. Being able to delete files while viewing them is probably the way I use XnViewMP mostly. I also hope we can have a quick fix in form of 0.80.1 or similar! Good luck on bug hunting!
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I hope you can follow me. While delete doesn't work by itself, there's a way to make it work, as in modern keyboards there are two delete keys. One is in they numeric keypad, and the other is in the access cluster just over the stand-alone arrow keys (the cluster usually has 6 keys: insert, delete, home, end, pgup and pgdown).
Under Windows 7 64 Bit, using spanish keyboard just in case it is important.
I uninstalled XnViewMP, and installed 0.79, still preserving the old configuration files. If you go to configuration, interface, shortcuts, and assign to cmd_Delete (under view mode) the key Del, it will not work. However, if you assign the dot key (which in the numeric keypad shares key with delete), it will work. It's independent of the state of Num Lock, btw. Not only the one in the numeric keypad, but also the other one above the arrow keys. So strange. It puzzles me how pressing delete sends a dot, but it also puzzles me that the normal assigment of Del works in explorer mode but not in view mode, as if keys are handled completely differently in each mode.
If you install again 0.80, the above trick doesn't work, but installing over 0.79 makes it work again.
I hope this quirky trick sheds some light on what's happening. Being able to delete files while viewing them is probably the way I use XnViewMP mostly. I also hope we can have a quick fix in form of 0.80.1 or similar! Good luck on bug hunting!
Read Main Topic