Hi All,

I notice that when I use Houdini on OSX the function of the Delete key does not work. I have to use the Backspace key instead.

Is there a fix for this?

I would like to swap these two keyboard mappings to make it more compatible with Windows style operations.

It's annoying me, too. One way would be to use Karabiner (key remap tool), open its private.xml and do like this:

<appdef>
<appname>HOUDINI</appname>
<equal>com.sidefx.HoudiniEscape</equal>
</appdef>
<item>
<name>enable delete in Houdini</name>
<identifier>private.houdelete</identifier>
<only>HOUDINI</only>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::FORWARD_DELETE, KeyCode:ELETE</autogen>
</item>

Does not help too much, since the delete key will act as backspace in expressions fields. At least, this override works only in Houdini. I did this after seeing the operator menu for the 1000th time after trying to delete an operator.

Curiously enough, without this trick, the Hotkey editor reports “Backspace” when I press “Delete”. Maybe someone at SideFX just swapped the keys when porting Houdini to OSX

This brought me to an idea:
In the hotkey editor: /Houdini/Panes/Network Editor/Add Operator
Delete Backspace as entry
/Houdini/Panes/Network Editor/Delete:
Add Backspace as entry

Voila. No other stuff needed.