How do you "select" a cage for a summary chart?

[Brian Teague]

Hi all,

I see it's been a few years since there's been any activity on this group. I'm still using VGL for my upper-division genetics course, and each year students complain that they can't "select" a cage to create a summary table -- clicking on the window does nothing. Each year, I have to remember that we work around it by using the Super Cross to create a new cage and a summary chart.

I'm not sure if it's a platform-specific bug. I'm testing on Linux right now and the bug is present -- I'll follow up with a test on Windows. I'm pretty sure it's a problem on Mac but I don't have one to test right now.

Is this a bug for anyone else? Is there, say, a keyboard shortcut to select a cage that I don't know about? (Is anyone still here?)

Thanks!

Brian

[Brian White]

Brian et al

You click anywhere inside the cage that isn’t an organism and then it gets highlighted like this

(see the red border)

this is on mac

I don’t have a way to test on linux; sorry

Brian

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[Brian Teague]

Huh. I can't get the cage to highlight in Windows either, no matter where I click. I'll ask the Mac people in class today and see if they're having trouble.

Thanks for your response (:  

-Brian (T)

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[Thomas Fleetwood]

Hello all,

I just tested this on Windows 11 using VGL 3.3.2 and I can say that it works.

Make sure you double-click it, and not on an individual. Try double-clicking on one of the trait boxes (e.g. the word purple or red or gray) next to the individuals. That works for me.

Tom

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[Brian Teague]

Hi y'all,

The plot thickens! In my classroom we usually just work on the "practice" problem and that's all I had tried. Turns out, double-click to select a cage works just fine for on Windows and Linux when I'm using a "real" problem but NOT when I use a practice problem!

Again, I think the super-cross workaround will be fine. Just an oddity I thought I'd document. Thanks for everyone's help.

-Brian

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