I am experiencing an annoying problem when using ROOT 5.26/00 on Mac OS X 10.5.8 and with a German keyboard layout. It seems that the Alt-key does not work in TGTextEntries, as I am unable to type parentheses like [] or {} and many other symbols.
Is this known and does anyone have a solution to this? Switching to an English keyboard layout is a workaround, but quite unsatisfactory if you are sitting in front of a German keyboard
thanks for the hint! I had trouble with the 5.26 rev. from svn (compiled fine but crashes with a segfault immediately after starting up). Hence I tried root 5.27 and there the problem with the keyboard still persists.
Is there anything I can still do? How could I find out what the reason for this problem is?
Well, it depends on the exact version you have. This fix is not in any binary release (or in any tag).
The only think you can do is to build the trunk from source, or to apply the necessary patches, as shown in this revison log: http://root.cern.ch/viewvc?view=rev&revision=33436
I have the same problem under Linux (Debian Lenny). I cannot type any {}[] in TGTextEntries.
I use mainly 525-04 but I just tryied with 526-00 and it also didn’t work…
This has been solved in svn trunk, and will be included in the next development release planned for the end of June. So you can either build from source, using svn trunk, or wait for the next release.
I had the problem of altgr in TGTextEdit / TGTextEntry / everywhere,
now solved in 5.27/4 - Linux
But I also have a similar problem with accented characters, è ò Ã
(note: single key press in italian keyboard, not key combinations).
You type, nothing appears in TGTextEdit / TGTextEntry / everywhere.
In 5.27/4, this problem is not solved.
Paolo
PS: Can you backport altgr patch to the next official patch release 5.26.00/d ?
Thanks
FYI, the accented characters (UTF-8) are actually not supported in the ROOT GUI.
And the backport of altgr patch is done and will be part of the next patch release