topic Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad in Modeling

Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 12:33:24 GMT

Hi,

This is my first post here, so i hope it's on the right thread

I'm having a problem where when i print and i would dare click next to the publisher window it will hide behind my organiser window and i can't get it back on top..

Because of this i can't click the close button and Archicad is "locked" since i can't push any buttons anymore.

Anyone know how to fix this if it would happen again. I have already placed my organiser on the far left and publisher on the far right, but today i had someone with the same problem asking me this question too,
all i could answer was alt-f4 it.

Thanks in advance
Kris

Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:19:39 GMT

Did you tried to press "Esc" to escape from printing dialog?

It is not clear what problem do You actually have.
You should attach a snaphot of your screen i think...

Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:48:50 GMT

I tried "esc", "ctrl-tab", clicking on everything that might make it pop up again. Nothing seemed to work.

On the picture added (attachement) the little window would pop behind the big one. I tried to reproduce it but it didn't work. So my guess is that it must be a certain chain of events that get you there. Still it is a pain when you where working on a heavy file.

Greets
Kris

Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 12:01:57 GMT

Attachment is missing!

One more idea - use shortcuts to jump in appropriate window.
I use my own combination "Ctrl+2" to switch to plan window.

It often helps me to stop a neverending initialization of 3Dwindow with some unstable objects.

Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:31:35 GMT

Attachement (hopefully) added

Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:29:55 GMT

I can freely move and close top window, so i could not understand your bug.
You have to wait somebody with the same problem or a guru answers...

soryy!?

Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:32:08 GMT

may be AC just hanging?

Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:15:17 GMT

I've think I've had something similar happen to me a couple of times as well. It's like the dialog box ends up under the main Archicad screen. But Archicad won't respond to anything because it's waiting for the dialog to get answered but the dialog is stuck behind the Archicad screen. I think in the posted picture the explanation is that is the dialog box that is getting stuck behind the screen, not necessarily how it looks when the error happens.

Also, if I remember right, it's an all-stop type error where the computer hangs waiting for the dialog to be answered. Because I'm remembering that I had reboot to clear it. I think I blamed it on my ongoing problem I have with moving my laptop around connecting it to many different monitors and having several different desktop setups.

But maybe there is a problem with Archicad loosing those kind of all-stop dialog boxes under the main screen?

Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

David Bearss — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:04:14 GMT

I would like to see if anybody has found a solution to this.
zeropointreference described situation exactly and I am experiencing occasionally. Have not determined exact sequence to trigger but suspect it may have to do with using other programs while publishing in background.
Anybody?

Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 09:54:40 GMT

What graphic card do you have? Try update the drivers. I used to have similar issues with some Nvidia cards.

Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

David Bearss — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:54:05 GMT

It is a brand new inspiron with Nvidia GeForce GT 650M. I will try updating the driver though and see if that has any affect.

Re: Organiser blocking publisher, locking Archicad

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 11:13:31 GMT

Hi,

did somebody find a solution for this issue?
I used to work on PC and never had this problem but on Mac I experience it regularly - at least once a week. It is particularly annoying if you have a tight deadline and cannot publish all the drawings because of some window hanging behind another one.
Thanks in advance!