problems with Coder mode for Mac users

[Michelle Barton]

Leonid,
Thank you for the quick fix!
Michelle

On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 4:01 PM Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Michelle,
>
> I have fixed the two issues that you have reported. New CLANc is on the
> web.
>
> If your students get a message "Please finish coding current line first."
> and they don't know how to proceed or get out of that state, then they can
> press ESC-e to get out of coders mode and get back to editor mode.
> The ESC-e or menu "Mode->Coder mode" lets you toggle between those two
> mode. While in coder mode any direct editing in text window is disabled to
> make sure that text cursor is not moved accidentally. This is the reason
> for the error message to finish coding first.
>
>
> Leonid.
>
> On Sep 13, 2021, at 09:23, Michelle Barton <mbarton at ncf.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am teaching an undergrad lab class that is learning to use CLAN.  2
> students are using Macs and ran into trouble with the coder function.  The
> issues were:
>
> 1) After placing the cursor on the speaker line to be coded and hitting
> esc-e, CLAN inserted the dependent coding tier (%spa) ABOVE the speaker
> line instead of below.
> -note that the .cut file was accessed appropriately and the codes were
> appearing at the bottom of the screen and could be inserted by clicking on
> them, so that part is ok... it is just the placement of the dependent tier
> going above rather than below the main line.
>
> 2) When the students complete their coding entries and type esc-c, they
> get a message to finish the coding; they can't exit the single line of code
> even when typing esc-c again. They can't do anything except exit the whole
> transcript and try again, but same thing happens, so their codes do not get
> saved.
>
> I do not have a Mac, so I cannot recreate these steps myself, but I did
> watch them run through the steps they should use, and both students had the
> same issues arise.  The work around for the assignment was for them to
> manually type in the codes instead of via coder mode... but this was only
> doable because there were only 30 code lines to enter in their 2
> transcripts.
>
> They both downloaded the CLAN for Macs around Aug 25, so they are using
> the versions that were posted then.
>
> Thank you for any help,
> Michelle
>
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