Can't delete object instances via instances list

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Describe the bug

Can’t delete objects via instances list (Missing feature or bug?)

Steps to reproduce

Create an object in a scene. Select it in the instances list.
Right click has no context menu (not a bug, missing feature I think), left click does select it in the scene, but pressing DEL key just higlights the row in the instances list. That makes it inconvenient to delete an object in the scene when it’s obscured by another object (and the instance list should be the solution to this common problem I think…)

Share a very simple GDevelop project showing the bug

I really believe this is not necessary in this case… new project, drop in just one object, reproduce…

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Hi @fud1974!

I don’t know if i have well undestood but could not be a problem of selection of layer?

A+
Xierra

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No.

The selected layer doesn’t play a role in this case.

Doesn’t everybody has this problem? You select an instance via instances list.
Press DEL. Nothing happens.

You CAN delete it via trashcan icon all the way up in the right in the Gdevelop window after selecting it in the instances list, but it would be really nice to have a shortcut and not an icon so far away…

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I couldn’t agree more. But this isn’t a bug but a limitation.

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yep …it looks selected once you’ve clicked on instances. but you actually need to click on it to be able to Ctrl X. I always forget that the bin icon is over there

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True… So “Feature Request” would be more fitting.

It “feels” for me like a bug, though, like something is just not working right, it’s so logical to me that DEL should delete the instance if it’s selected or that there should be a minimal context menu, maybe this is the reason why I thought of it as bug before thinking any further.

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Great point. A bug does seem fitting due to the fact that it’s an unexpected behavior. The object is selected and should be deleted on delete press.