Re: Reports that AIJ (and ImageJ) have problems running under MacOS 10.13

Posted by jablowm on Mar 05, 2018; 12:40pm
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/Text-box-incompatibility-with-Mac-OSX-10-13-tp853p971.html

All,
The following is a post I had made to the AAVSO Exoplanet course forum.  I see from this forum that folks had already identified the issue, so probably nothing new in my post but here it is anyway.

Regards,
Mark J.

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Mac OS X (High Sierra 10.13.4 Beta) and AstroImageJ (db3.2.1)

Besides the EXOPLANET Course uses, I have already found multiple uses for AstroImageJ in my Amateur Astronomy work, one being an asteroid / star occultation I'd recently measured in which the target star was inadvertently unresolved from a non-occulted binary twin.  Huge thanks to Karen Collins and the rest for an outstanding program.

Note for the developers (unknown if this is a symptom of my own computer / OS configuration):

I noted a repeatable abberent behavior for some text fields used to input some parameters in the software I want to pass on.  For these fields, keyboard-entered values are ignored, as if those fields are not allowing input.  However these fields do appear to get keyboard focus, and you can 'Cut and Paste' information into/out of them (Cmd C / Cmd V on Mac).  I suggest possibly that these text field parameters may not be optimally configured.

Some examples of Text Fields behaving in this manner are:

In 'Multi-Aperture Measurements'
       Radial profile mode normalized flux cutoff
In 'Aperture Photometry Settings'  [screen reached from the 'Aperture Settings' button]
       Keywords
       CCD gain
       CCD read out noise
In 'Set Vertical Marker Text'  [reached by clicking the button over the V Marker fields]
       Vertical Marker 1 Text - Line 1
       Vertical Marker 1 Text - Line 2
       Vertical Marker 2 Text - Line 1
       Vertical Marker 2 Text - Line 2

Again, warm regards and thank you for this wonderful program.

Mark Jablow