Here's a very interesting problem

[@Kreator]

Okay, so I'm trying to use direct mode. I get the whole F10, CTRL, arrow keys part. However, I am on a MacBook laptop with a trackpad, which can't right click. This has already caused a lot of problems for me in the level editor, by the way. For instance, every time I control-clicked something to delete it, I couldn't turn delete mode off for my cursor. I fixed this problem by clicking things in direct mode to delete stuff, but back to what I was saying... whenever I'm in direct mode, I can't use any tile other than Tile 0. That's because whenever I hold CTRL, all the tiles appear at the top of the screen, but the arrow keys can't do anything. Does anybody have any ideas?

[That Souleye Crewmate]

Hmm... Have you tried controlling it with anything else? Because this is a very interesting problem. But why dont the arrow keys work? They should...

[allison]

I think the best option would be to connect a mouse to the laptop, if you can... Or see if it's possible to bind a key to the "right click" function, but I dunno if it is...

[That Souleye Crewmate]

What crazya said. Besides, i use my laptop with a mouse, without it its really hard to play games.

[Dav999]

Just click with two fingers.

[@Kreator]

I can right-click fine by hooking up a USB mouse or as Dav said, clicking with two fingers, but the fact that I can control-click is probably what's messing everything up.

[Dav999]

Ohh wait, that's what I get for reading too fast...

I have no idea why ctrl+arrows isn't working for you, I can use direct mode just fine on Mac. Do you have any keyboard settings that are different than the defaults?

[@Kreator]

I don't know, I looked for the keyboard settings in System Preferences and couldn't really find anything useful to my problem.

[Dav999]

And just to rule that out, have you tried restarting VVVVVV?

[@Kreator]

How exactly would that help in this case? I had restarted it over and over again before I found clever ways to delete things without control-clicking, though.

[allison]

How exactly would that help in this case?

Hey, you never know. This has solved an embarrassingly large number of issues that have stumped me.