topic Re: Escape Key not working in Modeling

Escape Key not working

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:38:34 GMT

My Escape key has stopped working. This only happens in Acad 11, not in Acad 10.

Can it be reactivated under 'Preferences' somewhere?

Keith
Archicad 11 on Mac 0SX ver 10.4.8

Re: Escape Key not working

__archiben — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:34:07 GMT

Keith wrote:
My Escape key has stopped working. This only happens in Acad 11, not in Acad 10.

this has been happening to me since AC9 i think. ESC and DEL stop working intermittently - and for no obvious reason. the only cure is to restart archicad i'm afraid.

~/archiben

Re: Escape Key not working

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:11:30 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
Keith wrote:
My Escape key has stopped working. This only happens in Acad 11, not in Acad 10.
this has been happening to me since AC9 i think. ESC and DEL stop working intermittently - and for no obvious reason. the only cure is to restart archicad i'm afraid.

~/archiben

Or, while your archicad is still open... try clicking on your 'active' archicad's shortcut..(mine is located on the dock...others may have theirs on the desktop screen). It somehow 'refreshes' the whole window environment, especially if you tend to navigate in and out of your archicad window to do other tasks... its worth a shot, it helped me a few times.

I used this technique on a mac....haven't tried it on win XP... yet.

Re: Escape Key not working

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:47:59 GMT

Thanks guys.

It came back just as mysteriously as it went.

Re: Escape Key not working

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:06:30 GMT

Spoke too soon. Now it's happening all the time.

I'm seriously considering going back to release 10, since the advantages of new features in rel 11 are outweighed by not having the function of the Escape Key.

Keith

Archicad 11 on Mac OSX 10.4.8

Re: Escape Key not working

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:45:09 GMT

I guess if I were in your shoes....I'd troubleshoot from the simplest possibilities and go complex from there. I'd start by checking if the esc key works in other applications (if not then its a keyboard problem)....2nd step would just go ahead and uninstall archicad....restart and reinstall.

I'd also check to see if your Mac OS is up to date.....latest to my knowledge is 10.4.10.

Re: Escape Key not working

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:57:12 GMT

The escape key works in every other context, including Archicad Rel 10.

I'll take your advice, thanks and try reinstalling.

- K

Re: Escape Key not working

TomWaltz — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:09:07 GMT

I'd also ask how you're switching Apps. If you click on them on the Dock, sometimes keyboard control is still at the previous App., making it look like keys (and mouse zoom) don't work.

If you use Command-Tab, Mac switches full control and it's much happier

Re: Escape Key not working

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:01:55 GMT

Okay. I've closed down all other apps. Rebooted. Opened Release 11.
Escape key still doesn't work (except, oddly, in Text Edit mode). Only way to abort a command is to finish it and then undo. Pain in the neck!

Opened Release 10. Everything works perfectly.

Must be a bug in Release 11, surely?

Keith

Release 11, on Mac OSX 10.4.8

Re: Escape Key not working

__archiben — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:57:09 GMT

Keith wrote:
Escape key still doesn't work (except, oddly, in Text Edit mode). Only way to abort a command is to finish it and then undo. Pain in the neck!

just as a matter of interest: if you go into your work environment>keyboard shortcuts and try to assign the ESC key to a command - any old command - what does it tell you?

(it shouldn't do anything, but it's the only non-bug issue i can think of that might explain: the ESC key has been assigned to a non-global command.... it's a long shot)

~/archiben

Re: Escape Key not working

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:23:02 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion, Ben.

Escape key function mysteriously reappeared for a day, and then disappeared again today!

I tried assigning it to a shortcut key - but this is one of the few places it worked - exiting the shortcut key dialogue!

Since this never happens to me in Release 10, isn't it a fair bet it's a bug?

- Keith