Clicking in Igor 7 much less... accurate?

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Fri, 06/09/2017 - 02:19 pm

Quite a few times now (over a dozen at this point) since switching to igor 7 I've "misclicked". The most recent one was trying to add a legend to a graph and twice ended up clicking on colorscale instead. Now, I'm no luddite, and I'm pretty dang accurate with my mouse. Has anyone else noticed this inaccuracy of clicking and selecting menu items?

Also just some REALLY weird behavior in general. I was clicking "OK" when editing the above legends and suddenly the "modify trace" dialog pops up? I certainly didn't double click. It's almost the mouse click on the "Ok/Modify" button is interacting with the graphs behind it. Also is not the first time this exact thing has happened. But it doesn't happen when I try to reproduce it unfortunately.

EDIT: The same thing happened AGAIN, twice in a row. Clicking "Change" on a "Modify Annotation" dialog brought up the "modify trace" dialog. Clicking out of that (I think I hit cancel) brought up the modify dialog AGAIN. This time there was no graph behind the dialog button.

It's actually starting to get on my nerves. Can't get used to the new igor yet.
A potential bug like this should be reported to support@wavemetrics.com rather than on IgorExchange.com so it can be handled properly. You can use the Help->Contact Support menu item to generate an email with some vital information in it. Or you can use the Help->About menu item to open the About dialog and then click the System Information button. Make sure to copy the information in that dialog into your email (or, if you don't want to contact support directly, at least include that information here).

I wonder if you're using 7.04 on Windows and have a high-DPI display. If so, you might try the nightly build, which has fixed some high-DPI related issues that might cause the symptoms you described. You can use the Help->Igor Pro Nightly Build menu item to find the nightly build.

June 10, 2017 at 07:37 am - Permalink