Mac OS X double click and drag and drop stopped working

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Mac OS X double click and drag and drop stopped working #175

Open daknecht opened 7 years ago

daknecht commented 7 years ago

I can no longer open Fiji files by double clicking on them (tiff) or dragging and dropping them on the Fiji icon in the menu bar. If Fiji is not open, it opens but does not open the file. If it is open, nothing happens. Opening the same file from File/Open or File/Import works fine. This used to work fine and I don't know when the transition occurred to make it stop working (within the last few months). I saw on the listserv that a colleague had posted the same issue on his Mac. OS X 10.11.6 Fiji up to date today.

ctrueden commented 7 years ago

I believe the issue is a limitation in Oracle's Java 8—previously, we used Apple's Java 6, which supported this functionality. The OpenJDK developers are working on making it work again with Java 9, but it will be a while before Java 9 is ready. As a workaround for now, you can drag-and-drop onto the main window. You should see the status bar change to <<Drag and Drop>> while doing it. See this forum thread for related discussion.