tabbing through image windows in 1.38k

[Bill Christens-Barry]

I noticed in ImageJ 1.38k that tabbing through all open windows has been resurrected - ahh, good.
Unfortunately, under Mac OS 10.4.8 (and perhaps elsewhere), once a histogram window becomes
frontmost, continued tabbing cycles through the various buttons within the histogram window, rather
than continuing on to other image windows.

One other comment on window/image cycling: I often lose sight of the ImageJ application window,
and miss the ability to pull it to the front using the "Enter" key. Is there currently any way to bring
this window to the front via via the keyboard?

Thanks.

Bill Christens-Barry

[Gabriel Landini]

On Saturday 03 March 2007, Bill Christens-Barry wrote:
> I noticed in ImageJ 1.38k that tabbing through all open windows has been
> resurrected - ahh, good. Unfortunately, under Mac OS 10.4.8 (and perhaps
> elsewhere), once a histogram window becomes frontmost, continued tabbing
> cycles through the various buttons within the histogram window, rather than
> continuing on to other image windows.

Same in linux, but I was not too surprised as this seems to be the standard
way to jump between items in dialogs.

BTW, not sure how other OSs deal with this, but in linux
CTRL tab: cycles desktops
ALT tab: cycles though the windows (so it cycles through images too)

> One other comment on window/image cycling: I often lose sight of the ImageJ
> application window, and miss the ability to pull it to the front using the
> "Enter" key. Is there currently any way to bring this window to the front
> via via the keyboard?

If you are in an ImageJ window, Enter brings the application window to the
front. Doesn't that work in Mac OS?

Cheers,

G.

[Bill Christens-Barry]

In-window cycling among dialog widgets via tab doesn't surprise me, and is a welcome behavior.
On my machine (MacBook Pro/C2D/10.4.8/Java 1.5.0_07-164), the "Enter" key doesn't top the app
window as it once did, nor does the "Return" key. After Wayne's response that the "Return" key
should top the app window, I'm wondering if it's my local key bindings.

Bill Christens-Barry

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:15:34 +0000, Gabriel Landini <[hidden email]> wrote:

>On Saturday 03 March 2007, Bill Christens-Barry wrote:
>> I noticed in ImageJ 1.38k that tabbing through all open windows has been
>> resurrected - ahh, good. Unfortunately, under Mac OS 10.4.8 (and perhaps
>> elsewhere), once a histogram window becomes frontmost, continued tabbing
>> cycles through the various buttons within the histogram window, rather than
>> continuing on to other image windows.
>
>Same in linux, but I was not too surprised as this seems to be the standard
>way to jump between items in dialogs.
>
>BTW, not sure how other OSs deal with this, but in linux
>CTRL tab: cycles desktops
>ALT tab: cycles though the windows (so it cycles through images too)
>
>> One other comment on window/image cycling: I often lose sight of the ImageJ
>> application window, and miss the ability to pull it to the front using the
>> "Enter" key. Is there currently any way to bring this window to the front
>> via via the keyboard?
>
>If you are in an ImageJ window, Enter brings the application window to the
>front. Doesn't that work in Mac OS?
>
>Cheers,
>
>G.
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