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Gothboy · Post by **Gothboy** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:22 pm

So has this been fixed with the 1.1 MuLab patch? I can't delete plugs using the delete key on a Mac. Is there some way to do this....shouldn't this be a simple thing to do?

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:42 pm

Vst Plugin Manager -> Delete key = deletes the highlighted item

It works fine here on the mac mini.

How does it work on other macs?

Gothboy · Post by **Gothboy** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:08 pm

Weeellll, not working on my system running Panther 10.3.9. What would be helpful is a right click delete function added.

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:13 pm

Could you please email me about this. Want to research this a bit deeper.

Gothboy · Post by **Gothboy** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:14 am

email sent.

Gothboy · Post by **Gothboy** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:06 pm

Any other info on this topic would be great as I still have no way of deleting unscanned plugs out of MuLab. I sent an email....got no reply, still have issue.

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:42 pm

Strange!

I was waiting for your reply!

I've sent you a detailed email about this on 29 january.

It had an attachement.

Could that be the reason why you didn't receive it?

Gothboy · Post by **Gothboy** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:02 pm

Well, I never got the email....can you send it again?

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:43 pm

Resent!

Gothboy · Post by **Gothboy** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 5:11 pm

Jo,
I sent you back the .txt test results. Hope it helps!

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:14 am

Thanks for the log!

It seems that the osx key codes are not the same on all macs...

I'll have to research this more.

What type of keyboard do you have?

By the way: i also sent you this message via email last friday, but just received an error from your mail host: Blocked for spam.

Maybe this was also the case when i sent that previous message.

Gothboy · Post by **Gothboy** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:44 pm

Jo,
I'm using one of those "teal green with black key" keyboards that came with those old Imacs from the late '90s and a Logitech mouse. This keyboard came with the G4 from the seller but is not the keyboard that originally shipped with the Gigabit ethernet models....I believe those were grey.
I do have heavy spam filters on my Pc because Comcast installs McAfee but try sending it again. I got that one and it was the same email address.

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:04 pm

Gothboy, i looked deeper into this and i come to the conclusion that you have been pressing the "Backspace" key instead of "Delete" key.

If you want to delete unused plugin entries in the Plugin Manager, use the Delete key, not Backspace.

In MU.LAB, Backspace is NOT used as a Delete key.

I've always wondered why backspace was used as a delete key, when there is a delete key on the keyboard...

Maybe some historical mac reason..?

pljones · Post by **pljones** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:10 pm

I think chr(8) as erase goes back further than chr(127) as delete. Historically, chr(127) was seen as another interrupt character, like chr(3). Goes way back before the Mac to straight TTY days.

muzycian · Post by **muzycian** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:49 am

Thanks for the historical info

Interesting!

Anyway, imho nowadays the Delete key should be sufficient as the key for deleting objects/items.

It's clearly labeled "Delete" and that i like a lot.

Or do you think that also Backspace should delete any selected objects/items?

Is that "backspace = delete" thing something mac specific, or did it also occur on windows?

It's all about a detail. But i've learnt details are important.

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Deleting unscanned plugs?