topic Re: Drop Down Menu UI in Installation & update

Drop Down Menu UI

mattmgut — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:20:23 GMT

Please see photo attached. Occasionally when I use the drop down menu for "Documentation" and move off the menu, the menu remains. Currently I need to shut down Archicad and restart for it to go away. Are other users experiencing this? Any other suggestions to get the blank menu box to go away?

Thanks!

Re: Drop Down Menu UI

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:44:11 GMT

Just had this happen with the Enscape Menu and had to restart AC. At the time I had 2 AC sessions open.

Re: Drop Down Menu UI

mattmgut — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:57:41 GMT

Thanks for confirming.

Re: Drop Down Menu UI

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:22:11 GMT

This was reported before by other users as well, and it seems to be an issue with macOS Tahoe:

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/Strange-Modal-Ghost-Dialog-Box/td-p/683569

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/ArchiCAD-28-3-0-amp-MacOS-Tahoe/m-p/683422/highlight/true#M38977

Re: Drop Down Menu UI

mattmgut — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:01:20 GMT

Thanks for the response. I am still running Sequoia.

Re: Drop Down Menu UI

Eduardo Rolon — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:32:35 GMT

When I initially installed Tahoe I never saw the issue, nor did I see it in Sequoia, I am in Tahoe 26.1 at the moment.

Re: Drop Down Menu UI

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:05:27 GMT

Interesting, you might be the first person who reported this issue on a system other than Tahoe, which means that the issue is not Tahoe-specific.

Re: Drop Down Menu UI

Barry Kelly — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:39:32 GMT

In this post it mentions it happens in Tahoe, Sequoia and Sonoma.

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Installation-update/ArchiCAD-29-Bug-empty-window-over-working-window-object-and/m-p/684249#M39015

Reading those posts it seems it might be a Mac issue with external monitors?

Barry.

Re: Drop Down Menu UI

mattmgut — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:04:34 GMT

Thanks for finding the post - I need to do better searches. It does happen with an external monitor. Next time I will drag the application to my laptop screen and see what happens.

Re: Drop Down Menu UI

Space_Agency — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 02:21:21 GMT

Same issue. Sonoma. No monitor connected. Seems triggered with Enscape.

Re: Drop Down Menu UI

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:50:38 GMT

What I heard is that it happens when you click on a menu and AC is not active.

So in the case of Enscape if you open the Enscape window and have it in front and then click on another menu item (including Enscapes') then you get the ghost menu.

Re: Drop Down Menu UI

JohnR — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:03:47 GMT

I have the same issue when I use AC 28 with MacOS Sequoia 15.7.3. I'd like to upgrade to MacOS Tahoe 26.2, but I don't think Graphisoft has given this OS there green light, unless I'm mistaken. If this bug is the worst of it then I'm not too concerned.