RE: Problem with curly brackets on Mac

Hi,

> Note that currently it is not possible to paste something in teh
> graphics editor. Olivier, Bertrand, up to you to process and implement
> this desired feature.

FYI, copy/paste with the mouse or with Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V works perfectly well On Linux and Windows. This is a Mac specific issue. We'll see what we can do about this.

Cheers, Bertrand.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rene Brun
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 22:25 To: Ann-Cecilie Larsen
Cc: roottalk (Mailing list discussing all aspects of the ROOT system.); Olivier Couet; Bertrand Bellenot Subject: Re: [ROOT] Problem with curly brackets on Mac

It looks like a keyboard problem on your side. Note that currently it is not possible to paste something in teh graphics editor. Olivier, Bertrand, up to you to process and implement this desired feature.

Rene

Ann-Cecilie Larsen wrote:
> Hello Rene,
>
> here's what I do (for simplicity using hsimple.C from the ROOT tutorials):
>
> 1) First, I execute the script:
>
> MacBookPro-2:Desktop anncecil$ root -l
> root [0] .x hsimple.C
> hsimple : Real Time = 3.81 seconds Cpu Time = 0.55 seconds
> Note: File "/sw/lib/root/libCore.so" already loaded
> (class TFile*)0x3b9f810
> root [1]
>
> 2) Then, I choose View => Editor in the TCanvas
>
> 3) I click on, e.g., the y axis and get the yaxis::TAxis dialog box on
> the left in the TCanvas
>
> 4) I try to type E_{#gamma} in the Title but what I get is E_(#gamma)
> (normal parentheses)
>
> To invoke the curly bracket, I type Alt+Shift+8. This works everywhere
> else where I have tried.
> Is there another way to do it?
>
> By the way, I now tried to copy and paste the text string "E_{#gamma}"
> into the Title box, but this
> does not work either, it seems not to be possible to paste into this box.
>
> Many thanks for helping!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Cecilie
>
> On 3 Feb 2010, at 21:30, Rene Brun wrote:
>
>> Hi Cecilie,
>>
>> I cannot reproduce this problem on my Mac.
>> Could you show the most basic steps to reproduce the problem?
>>
>> Rene Brun
>>
>> Ann-Cecilie Larsen wrote:
>>> Dear ROOTers,
>>>
>>> when using the GUI editor in a TCanvas, I am not able to type curly
>>> brackets when I want to edit the title text of a histogram in this
>>> TCanvas. I have to do it in the command line or through a script.
>>> Also, if I create a Pave Label or Text/Latex everything is OK, but
>>> with the Pave Text and Paves Text the problem appears again. Of
>>> course it is not a big problem since I can do what I want by other
>>> means, but it is somewhat annoying...
>>>
>>> I am running ROOT 5.23/02 (trunk_at_27619) with Mac OSX 10.5.8 on a
>>> Macbook Pro with Intel Core Duo.
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Cecilie
>>>
>>> ====================================
>>>
>>> Ann-Cecilie Larsen (sent from MacBook Pro)
>>>
>>> Oslo Cyclotron Laboratory
>>>
>>> http://ocl.uio.no/
>>>
>>> Department of Physics, University of Oslo
>>>
>>> P.O.Box 1048 Blindern
>>>
>>> N-0316 Oslo, Norway
>>>
>>> Phone: +47 950 51 841 Fax: +47 22 85 64 22
>>>
>>> E-mail: a.c.larsen_at_fys.uio.no <mailto:a.c.larsen_at_fys.uio.no>
>>>
>>> ====================================
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> ====================================
>
> Ann-Cecilie Larsen (sent from MacBook Pro)
>
> Oslo Cyclotron Laboratory
>
> http://ocl.uio.no/
>
> Department of Physics, University of Oslo
>
> P.O.Box 1048 Blindern
>
> N-0316 Oslo, Norway
>
> Phone: +47 950 51 841 Fax: +47 22 85 64 22
>
> E-mail: a.c.larsen_at_fys.uio.no <mailto:a.c.larsen_at_fys.uio.no>
>
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Received on Thu Feb 04 2010 - 08:54:47 CET