topic Re: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia in Installation & update

!Restored: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:01:03 GMT

-With drawing items/objects/stuff selected, parameters edited in Info Box affect selection, but then Info Box loses info for still-selected item(s), showing either blank or default settings. Must re-select item to show proper info in box for further editing/verification. This is terribly annoying.

-3D window frequently shows nothing... dunno how I've switched back/forth from nothing showing to everything showing. Is curious. Did not notice this with previous build or v11.

-I'm getting a far more frequent appearance of the rainbow wheel while engaging in basic operations (drag, rotate, copy/paste, extend, etc).

-Ramps are locked into some sort of Riser ratio that doesn't allow for defining the ramp total height outside said ratio. Defined/locked parameters only related to length/width of ramp, and the riser/tread settings are grey and un-editable. But then, I've never used ramps before, and this may just be a funky tool issue (like so many others.....)

Re: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:18:31 GMT

Jocelyn
Don't know much about macs, but
some of what you mention seems video card related..??
Does it happen more when your machine gets hot?
If so, besides getting more fans inside you can add small fan to outside to confirm your suspicions.
Old video card of mine had intermittent problems as machine got hotter.
What is "rainbow wheel"?
Bier

Re: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

jbArch — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:42:51 GMT

-With drawing items/objects/stuff selected, parameters edited in Info Box affect selection, but then Info Box loses info for still-selected item(s), showing either blank or default settings. Must re-select item to show proper info in box for further editing/verification. This is terribly annoying.

I had this problem pre-hotfix and also after the hotfix. Not experiencing the other problems you mentioned, but I don't use ramps so I can't speak to that one.

Bier- Rainbow wheel (aka beach ball) is like the hourglass on windows.

Re: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:03:01 GMT

Joceyln,

Your signature says OS 10.5.4 ... maybe just needs to be updated? You have downloaded 10.5.5, right? There are some graphics fixes in 10.5.5

Karl

Re: !Restored: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:38:33 GMT

I'm currently 10.5.5, tho I don't know precisely when that happened re the occurrence of the problems I mentioned above. Hmm.

This won't fix my info box issue tho, eh? That's the one that's making me most grumpy. Or the ramp thing. Sigh.

Thanks y'all ... any further ideas and/or commiseration welcomed.

Re: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

Barry Kelly — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:20:50 GMT

Jocelyn wrote:
-With drawing items/objects/stuff selected, parameters edited in Info Box affect selection, but then Info Box loses info for still-selected item(s), showing either blank or default settings. Must re-select item to show proper info in box for further editing/verification. This is terribly annoying.

I am guessing you have the Trace Reference on.
Try turning it off and you won't have trouble with the info bar - at least that is what I have found.
It only seems to be a problem when the trace reference is on.
But of course that doesn't help much when you need to use the trace does it?

Barry.

Re: !Restored: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:27:10 GMT

i'm also suffering from the info box not displaying information when i have something selected...
am currently in the process of editing some fills and after each edit (like stretching an edge or a corner of a selected fill) the info box goes blank... as i'm not paying attention to it much and clicking on the next edge or corner i want to modify, it comes back to life but not after a long pause which when trying to work fast is a royal pain in the bum.
i should point out this is not limited to fills, i was modifying slabs, walls and a mesh yesterday and for something that should 've taken me 5 minutes to do it took twice as long with all this pausing and erroneous clicking on my part as i didn't have the patience to wait for it to sort itself out!
any help would be greatly appreciated!

Re: !Restored: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

vfrontiers — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:16:51 GMT

This bug just in...

Open ArchiCAD and a project and EDIT a material. Choose the COLOR of the material to edit. First time works great. But then each subsequent time the COLOR PICKER DIALOG box does NOT show! It is obvious the materials box is waiting for the color picker to complete, but it's no where to be found.

This happens on MAC... Latest release

Re: !Restored: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:46:18 GMT

vfrontiers wrote:
This bug just in...

Open ArchiCAD and a project and EDIT a material. Choose the COLOR of the material to edit. First time works great. But then each subsequent time the COLOR PICKER DIALOG box does NOT show! It is obvious the materials box is waiting for the color picker to complete, but it's no where to be found.

This happens on MAC... Latest release

Same configuration (latest Mac build, 10.5.6) and no problems - internal or LW panels. Is there any chance that you have some 3rd party add-ons loaded that interact with the Materials dialog, Duane?

Cheers
Karl

Re: !Restored: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

David Maudlin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:42:21 GMT

Duane:

Ditto Karl's reply.

David

Re: !Restored: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

vfrontiers — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:46:09 GMT

Nothing interacting with color dialog.. Again, it works the FIRST time it's called up, but never after that. I originally thought the the palette was there, just hidden, but no amount of moving screens around will show the color picker box.

I have to restart ArchiCAD to get the box back.

Only one guy in the firm is on the new build. I can open his file and use color picker flawlessly on the past build.

Re: !Restored: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:07:58 GMT

So ,we have to wait until graphisoft , made a hotfix , to solve this problem ? plk when this happen . thanks

Re: !Restored: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:37:39 GMT

Again, I do not have the problem on my Mac ... so if the bug still exists, somehow you guys have to create a 100% reproducible condition for Graphisoft for them to know how to reproduce the bug...

3djunior - what machine are you using? (Put it in your signature.)

Karl

Re: !Restored: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:13:09 GMT

Hi Karl , yes i forgot to mention , iam using an IMAC G5 , 2.5 gb RAM , and only to add at the coment by vfrontiers , i remember have working on the color dialog box , in ligthworks just before i noticed the menu display problems , so this is closely realtioned with the wrong functionality ?

Re: !Restored: post-hotfix buggy behavior paranoia

jbArch — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:23:20 GMT

Jocelyn & Others:
Did you ever get things working normally? I'm still having this problem, and not ready to fire up AC13 yet.

I have found that this problem is more frequent when I use a file that was started in an earlier version.

But today I have two good files that were started with the AC12 template, both working fine. But if I merge the files? Then the same info-box problem occurs in the 3D window (no problem in 2D).

JB