2:29 p.m.
I'm forwarding to the list a message from a mac user I just met at a
summer school.
Problem #2 is something I remember seeing on someone else's Mac.
Both problems may be specific to non-English versions of OSX.
Mac people, can you confirm?
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti
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Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 11:59:48 +0200
Subject: Gretl (Bertinoro feedback)
Problem on macOSX leopard:
The key "^" does not work;
Impossible to select 2 non consecutive variables in the main menu (for exemple to plot
together variable 1 and 3)
Best,
Anaïs.
2:55 p.m.
On 02-07-2011, at 16:29, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
I'm forwarding to the list a message from a mac user I just met at a summer school.
Problem #2 is something I remember seeing on someone else's Mac.
Both problems may be specific to non-English versions of OSX.
Mac people, can you confirm?
I am assuming that key "^" actually means the Control key. (Because the
pressing ^ certainly does give me a a ^).
Indeed it does not do what it may be doing in other systems.
But on a Mac Control Click is equivalent to a right click.
(Command Click is what you would do on Mac program.)
To change that requires xmodmap magic that I don't have.
I'm not sure it can be done.
Berend
5:57 p.m.
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote:
On 02-07-2011, at 16:29, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
>
> I'm forwarding to the list a message from a mac user I just met at a summer
school.
>
> Problem #2 is something I remember seeing on someone else's Mac.
>
> Both problems may be specific to non-English versions of OSX.
>
> Mac people, can you confirm?
I am assuming that key "^" actually means the Control key. (Because the
pressing ^ certainly does give me a a ^).
No, no, I do mean the "^" key (caret, exponentiation, whatever). I've seen
this with my eyes. On a Mac with French keyboard, you press "^", nothing
happens.
Indeed it does not do what it may be doing in other systems.
But on a Mac Control Click is equivalent to a right click.
(Command Click is what you would do on Mac program.)
To change that requires xmodmap magic that I don't have.
I'm not sure it can be done.
Surely there must be some way to do multiple non-contiguous
selection on OSX, no?
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti
8:29 p.m.
Am 02.07.2011 19:57, schrieb Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti:
No, no, I do mean the "^" key (caret, exponentiation, whatever). I've
seen this with my eyes. On a Mac with French keyboard, you press "^",
nothing happens.
Sorry if my answer misses the point, but in French "^" is the « accent
circonflexe » (the «» are French quotation marks) as in ê,î,ô,û,â. You
hit the accent key, nothing happens, and then the letter key, to get the
accented letter. If you want the "^" you hit the accent key twice, or on
Linux with French keyboard layout you can do AltGr+9 it seems.
Actually something similar with "^" happens on the German keyboard
although we don't really have those accented letters. Go figure.
-sven
6:55 a.m.
I have a Belgian keyboard on a mac OS 10.6. The caret appears when pressing the space bar
after having pressed the "^" key.
Selecting non-contiguous series does not work, however.
Jan
4:18 a.m.
On 02-07-2011, at 19:57, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote:
>
> On 02-07-2011, at 16:29, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm forwarding to the list a message from a mac user I just met at a summer
school.
>>
>> Problem #2 is something I remember seeing on someone else's Mac.
>>
>> Both problems may be specific to non-English versions of OSX.
>>
>> Mac people, can you confirm?
>
>
> I am assuming that key "^" actually means the Control key. (Because the
pressing ^ certainly does give me a a ^).
No, no, I do mean the "^" key (caret, exponentiation, whatever). I've seen
this with my eyes. On a Mac with French keyboard, you press "^", nothing
happens.
> Indeed it does not do what it may be doing in other systems.
> But on a Mac Control Click is equivalent to a right click.
> (Command Click is what you would do on Mac program.)
>
> To change that requires xmodmap magic that I don't have.
> I'm not sure it can be done.
Surely there must be some way to do multiple non-contiguous selection on OSX, no?
In OSX programs: Command Click.
But Gretl is an X11 application (in OSX terms) and that changes matters.
On Windows and Linux systems Control Click does non contiguous selection.
I have found that it is quite difficult to get the differences sorted out satisfactorily.
To get the Alt key on a Mac keyboard to work (for example Alt+F for menu File) took some
xmodmap magic which I still don't quite understand.
This is why I actually prefer using Gretl in Ubuntu or Xubuntu in VirtualBox.
Gretl then looks a lot better (standard GTK is extremely ugly and I haven't found a
satisfactory theme) and VirtualBox captures the keyboard so that Control clicking will do
non contiguous selection. I only have to compile Gretl myself.
On a mac keyboard in lower left corner from left to right you have the Control, Alt or
Option, Command keys. So Command is in the Windows Alt position and the Mac Alt is in the
Windows key or Super key position. There are ways of swapping this with xmodmap but that
is beyond my capabilities.
Berend
3:20 p.m.
On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote:
On 02-07-2011, at 19:57, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
> Surely there must be some way to do multiple non-contiguous
> selection on OSX, no?
In OSX programs: Command Click.
But Gretl is an X11 application (in OSX terms) and that
changes matters.
I tried to get Command-click working some time ago and failed,
but now I've had another go and it's working (on OS X 10.6 at
any rate). This is in CVS and the snapshots. Note that
Ctrl-click is used to emulate right-click on the Mac.
Allin
4:34 p.m.
Em 3 de julho de 2011 Allin Cottrell <cottrell(a)wfu.edu> escreveu:
On Sun, 3 Jul 2011, Berend Hasselman wrote:
> On 02-07-2011, at 19:57, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
>> Surely there must be some way to do multiple non-contiguous
>> selection on OSX, no?
>
> In OSX programs: Command Click.
>
> But Gretl is an X11 application (in OSX terms) and that
> changes matters.
I tried to get Command-click working some time ago and failed,
but now I've had another go and it's working (on OS X 10.6 at
any rate). This is in CVS and the snapshots. Note that
Ctrl-click is used to emulate right-click on the Mac.
Using Snow Leopard it worked just like a charm! Thanks Allin!
Best,
Henrique
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