Tracker

[Anonymous]

For some time I have had a problem with the tracker randomly turning off without me wanting it to. I have to go back into the menus & turn it back on.

I thought there may of been a keyboard shortcut that I was doing accidently, but cant find any reference to one.

Any Ideas anybody.

[Dwight]

I will give advice like Dr. Sung Park of "Monday Mornings":

Give shortcut: "J". Tracker disappear - you make appear!!
Be boss. Not dead.

[compu]

Rather than assigning a shortcut to Show/Hide Tracker (which had been my own solution, too) it would be a better solution to report this bug to Graphisoft to let them fix anyway within a hotfix. It's a boring thing which remains for years and here is how it does happen:

On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

[Matt Balaam]

compu wrote:
On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

This has been a long standing frustration of mine. I've reported it to Graphisoft Tech Support but couldn't quite put my finger on what caused it. Thanks to your post compu I now finally know what causes it so I can try to avoid it in the future!

[Eduardo Rolon]

compu wrote:
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On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

Finally an explanation on what turns it off.

[Anonymous]

Yes, thanks for explaining what it was. Never knew the action that shuts it off. But I find the first "out of frustration" question other people at the office ask me about AC is "I used to be able to input numbers and now I can't". And it's always the tracker shut off.

Thanks again.

[Anonymous]

I usually find it's there at the end of a session. But not there when I start a new session.

[Link]

compu wrote:
On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

That's great that you've figured out what turns the Tracker off! Well done!

Fortunately though, it only seems to turn it off it's visibility not it's functionality, and is easy to turn back on via the Toolbar.

Nevertheless Graphisoft should be made aware of it.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

compu wrote:
On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

Hahah just tried it....its going to be a hard habit to break

[Marton Kiss]

compu wrote:
Rather than assigning a shortcut to Show/Hide Tracker (which had been my own solution, too) it would be a better solution to report this bug to Graphisoft to let them fix anyway within a hotfix. It's a boring thing which remains for years and here is how it does happen:

On the plan, do a little zoom in/out, then just "before" zoom in/out refresh is finished, press M to start measure function... Well, at the time you quit measuring, you'll see that tracker is now turned off!

Thanks for posting the steps that are required to replicate this problem. Forwarded this to our dev folks for fixing.

Marton