Re: Showing coordinates in pixel units in the status bar

Posted by Rasband, Wayne (NIH/NIMH) [E] on Jul 14, 2015; 4:19am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Showing-coordinates-in-pixel-units-in-the-status-bar-tp5013385p5013542.html

> On Jul 13, 2015, at 3:36 AM, Thomas Julou <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Sorry for my delayed answer.
>
>> for me this works fine with the latest version of Fiji
>> (IJ2.0.0-rc30/1.49v) and the included Java 1.6.0_24 on Win7 64bit.
>> When I hold down [Alt] the status bar shows pixel coordinates (x,y and
>> z) and pixel sizes. After releasing [Alt] everything switches back to
>> calibrated units.
>
> Yes, this is the behaviour I am used to and that I lost recently on one of the machine I use (a unix server). It has not come back after upgrading to (IJ2.0.0-rc31/1.49v). JRE is 1.6.0_24 while on my mac laptop (where the same IJ version displays coordinates appropriately) it is 1.7.0_79. Can the JRE version explain the problem?
>
> Any hint about how I could fix this on my unix machine / send more info for debugging?

The window manager on the unix server is probably preventing ImageJ from seeing alt key presses. You can work around the problem by upgrading to the latest ImageJ daily build (1.50a17), which shows pixel coordinates in the status bar when either the shift or alt keys are held down.

-wayne

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