Text box incompatibility with Mac OSX 10.13

Posted by karenacollins on Oct 08, 2017; 6:54am
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/Text-box-incompatibility-with-Mac-OSX-10-13-tp853.html

Certain text boxes will not allow text to be entered directly from the keyboard. This is apparently an incompatibility between OSX 10.13 and java 6, which is used by AIJ. The affected text boxes are the ones in the generic AIJ panels such the aperture settings panel and the Multi-aperture setup panel. The sliders and checkboxes still work properly. The  fancier "Swing-based" panels such as DP and the Multi-plot panels are not affected.

There are currently two workarounds:

1) Open the Text Editor program and type the desired text into the the text editor window. Then copy and paste the text into the problematic AIJ text box.

2) Use the voice recognition feature of your Mac to enter the desired text.

We are working to implement a solution to this problem, but for now the inconvenient workarounds are required.
Karen