Re: strange behavior of ROI manager: select multiple ROIs

Posted by Wayne Rasband on Jul 25, 2009; 12:56am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/strange-behavior-of-ROI-manager-select-multiple-ROIs-tp3690769p3690772.html

On Jul 24, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Jan Eglinger wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have noticed a strange behaviour when selecting multiple ROIs in the
> ROI manager:
> After adding several ROIs by typing [t], I tried to select them by
> holding shift and clicking on two different ROIs. But instead of
> selecting all of them, only the last-clicked got selected.
>
> Then, after using the mouse wheel once to scroll through the ROIs, the
> multiple selection with shift works as expected.
>
> Anyone else observed this behaviour?
>
> (I'm using Fiji/ImageJ 1.43d on MacOSX 10.5.7)

This is a bug in Java 1.6 on OS X, which you can work around it by  
switching to Java 1.5. ImageJ for OS X comes with two launchers,  
ImageJ (Java 1.5) and ImageJ64 (Java 1.6).

-wayne