A1314 Keyboard delete key backwards only?

Question

I just purchased an Apple A1314 bluetooth keyboard, and the delete key will only delete to the right as if the function key is pressed. I have paired it with 3 different macs, all with the same results. Opening the Keyboard Viewer does not show the delete key as being pressed ever, but it does indeed delete to the right both when pressed alone or with the function key. Also, if I have a window selected that has no fields for text selected and I hold down the delete key, it begins making the key repeat sound, so I would say it is certainly making some kind of input. I've made sure the Accessibility preferences to make sure the "Enable Mouse Keys" isn't checked. I've paired and re-paired it with multiple machines. I'm running OS 10.9.1 on all machines I tested it with. If it turns out to be a defective product, is there a way to map the eject key to function as the delete key? Thanks for any input.

Answer 1

Hi there,
This is quoted from here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=events_11.html
A common way to handle global key presses is to create a listener for the KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN or KeyboardEvent.KEY_UP
event on the application. Listeners on the application container are
triggered every time a key is pressed, regardless of where the focus is
(as long as the focus is in the application on not in the browser
controls or outside of the browser). Inside the handler, you can
examine the key code or the character code using the charCode and keyCode properties of the KeyboardEvent class. 
It works when you press TAB because TAB essentially gets a child from the display list and focuses on it. Once your application/object has focus ( because you pressed TAB ) the keyboard listener can react. If your application is out of focus then it won't react to any keyboard events.
In case your object is selected and your application has focus and it's still not reacting then you could try using event.preventDefault(); to prevent default behavior; if that's not helping either then you need to recheck your code because the problem is in your code somewhere.
With best regards,
Barna Biro
Blog: http://blog.wisebisoft.com