topic Re: Where is opening box to choose project to open AC in Modeling

Where is opening box to choose project to open AC

Erika Epstein — Thu, 25 May 2023 16:06:43 GMT

The opening dialogue box where you can choose which project etc. you want to open has disappeared again on my various ACs.

Where is the setting for this again?

Re: Where is opening box to choose project to open AC

Laura Yanoviak — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:31:01 GMT

File > New & Reset All

Re: Where is opening box to choose project to open AC

Erika Epstein — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:18:56 GMT

Thanks Laura, this has been driving me nuts for a few months now.
Any one know why after all these years this has started happening?

Re: Where is opening box to choose project to open AC

Laura Yanoviak — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:22:55 GMT

You can turn it off by checking the "Do not Display this Dialog Next Time" box in the dialog. Maybe it was accidentally checked, or there some-sort-of "System Variable" (in ACAD terms) that switched it off?

Re: Where is opening box to choose project to open AC

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:33:24 GMT

There is also a preference / registry setting if you want to dig into that and avoid resetting other things that new & reset does. (I thought there was a UI preference checkbox somewhere but cannot find it - only the one in the dialog itself to now show it again.)

For Mac, com.graphisoft.AC 13[version.plist has

WorkEnvironment > StartupDialogEnabled

just check the item to re-enable the dialog. Did not fire up Windows to look, but I assume it is something like current user > Software > Graphisoft > [AC 13 version thing] > WorkEnvironment > etc

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Where is opening box to choose project to open AC

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:50:24 GMT

It is:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Graphisoft\ArchiCAD\ArchiCAD 13.0.0 USA R1\WorkEnvironment and set the StartupDialogEnabled value to 1.

Re: Where is opening box to choose project to open AC

Erika Epstein — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:24:44 GMT

Thank you both for how to fix this. I am always a bit nervous going into registry settings on my own.

I did file a bug report on this as it shouldn't be happening. If GS wants it to be a choice, then there should be a UI setting for it as we all looked for.

Re: Where is opening box to choose project to open AC

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:41:18 GMT

I think you can "freely abuse" the Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Graphisoft part of the registry.
If anything goes wrong you can just delete the whole thing and ArchiCAD will recreate it the next time you run it.