Text Input Question

Hello everyone! Sorry to bother you with something that is probably super easy to fix and I'm missing something obvious - 

For some reason when I want to delete text during a text input, I have to use "Insert" key to do so, not the delete or backspace key, do I need a script to fix this or is there a line somewhere in the code I can change for the game I am working on to use the "delete" key instead of the "Insert" key? 

Sorry again, hopefully one of you knows. :)

- Ledron

It depends on the set-up of the keyboard on the F1 menu which is per computer basis... So it actually depends on the player itself though you can only select a few keyboard buttons to bind, not the whole keyboard.

If you want to have a fixed key binding and use any key from the keyboard, you'd need a keyboard input script

Alrighty. It just seemed odd to me that it defaulted to the insert key to delete text. Thank you!

What keyboard are you using? or did you modify the actual keyboard bindings in your Windows? I tried opening the key bindings setup menu (F1) of the rgss player and the insert button isn't actually usable

I am using a plain Logitech keyboard, I don't really know why the insert key is deleting text, but ONLY in RPG Maker VX Ace. 

This is plain weird, without any extra script or unless you edited the keyboard set-up on windows, insert isn't even choosable on the button config of Ace...

Just to be sure, this is in-game right? If it's on the editor like the script editor for example, insert alters the input method...

Yes, it's just in game, only when you're editing text like name through the name input function. 

and it's a game that you're making? Hmmmm... try to see if the X button does the same... if not, then there's possibly something in there that remapped the X button's input into Insert

X also deletes the text. 

Escape is the "Undo" or "Go back" button.

*Nods.* Not quite what I was looking for though, - I am curious, can you remap the "X' key to the "Delete" key for a specific game? 

You do know that in many applications the insert key is a toggle - IOW if you tap it once, you are in insert mode, and if you tap it again, you are out of insert mode.

In WORD, in insert mode, what you type replaces what is there.

It may be worth a try just tapping the insert key one time to see if it will switch you back to "regular" editing.

it happens on the script editor (insert puts you into that insert mode), but it's the first time I heard it happen during in-game

OH!!! This is player input text? I'm sorry. 
 
Shaz has it. If you make a text booboo when you are playing a game, try her idea.
Escape erases the last input when using Name Input Processing.
 
I meant in game editor earlier.
 
Whoops! Sorry folks, I was totally off track.

You COULD make the Name Input Window accept other keys to erase letters. However, the Delete key is not one of the standard RPG Maker keys. If you wanted to use another standard key, it'd be a simple one-line change. To map the delete key you'd need to do that PLUS add another script that extends the keyboard mapping. There are several around that you could search for.


At this point, I'll go ahead and move the thread to Script Requests