topic Re: No Komma in Koordinates possible? in Installation & update

No Komma in Koordinates possible?

Hmooslechner — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:41:39 GMT

Today we experienced a brand new behavour in Archicad.

On the brand-new Win8 Laptop of one of my pupils it was not possible to type in a komma in any koordinate. The komma-kay worked fine in a textwindow or in any other program. Just Archicad 16 did not respond to the Komma-Key at Koordinates ?? We tried everything You can think of..

Asus R700V, Nvidia Geforce.GT, Intel I7

Did anyone experienced somthing similar? Is there anyone with a solution?

Also interesting and "...":

On three different Win8 - Laptops (Samsung, Sony, Acer) it was not possible to activate the 3D-Window.. It was too late in this lession to try everything in this case, but tomorrow ill try to turn off hardware acceleration..

Archicad 16 edu Aut

Re: No Komma in Koordinates possible?

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:47:39 GMT

At the moment ArchiCAD 16 has not been tested and verified on Windows 8 since it came out in June, while Windows 8 came out last month:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/ArchiCAD16#Compatibility

Two things you may try:
Copying a comma character to your Clipboard and pasting it into the Tracker or Text Block whenever you need it.
Try to use the ASCII code to enter the comma character (typing ALT key + something). I don't know if either would work, I haven't tried.)

If the comma problem does not go away, I may suggest switching your Units to Millimeters so will not have to type commas (or not as often).

Re: No Komma in Koordinates possible?

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:43:03 GMT

You might also try setting your keyboard to english if they are different. In spanish if we use the "spanish keyboard" and are using Imperial units we get problems when using Autocad and typing the ' for feet.

Re: No Komma in Koordinates possible?

Hmooslechner — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:26:24 GMT

it seems to be the Windows System integer-format. there You can tell Windows if it should take a komma or point for integers. Put in a point for a komma and Archicad cant take a komma any more...

Re: No Komma in Koordinates possible?

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 08:37:08 GMT

Yes, I was thinking about that.
I wonder why I didn't mention it.
I must have thought that based on your description of the problem, the solution could not be that simple.