It might be visible to you now.
The whole visibility problem is still here in the latest version (6.11.18317.13431, 11/13/2018)
Sometimes, with two Rhino instances, one will suddenly have the problem while the other one doesn’t (but will probably do so later).
One year later…
a colleague of mine got a new Windows 10 computer : the “Edit text” and “Edit Dot” panels also go blank randomly in 6.19.
Only solution : close Rhino / Re-open Rhino.
Of course, it still happens to me and other folks at the company.
My workaround ?
I open an empty Rhino session and Cut/Paste my thext there, where I can access and edit their properties, and the Copy/paste it back to the original document.
So yeah, go ahead, tell me it’s a Windows issue.
Recently, in a post someone said about the interface “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it”… well I claim it is broken ; heck ! It’s even worse than in V5 !!!
@osuire I’m sorry to hear that we’ve not been able to identify or solve this issue for you properly. The last I heard or knew it was likely linked to a WPF issue at the ETO level. I need to tag @curtisw on this one for his sage advice.
Ohhhh… I see !
If you resize the blank panel, does it start displaying the controls? If that is the case, Windows isn’t asking the panel to repaint when it is first displayed and will give us a clue.
Also running into the same issue (somtimes) here in SR18, I’m using grasshopper with Elefront and Human UI plugin.
No, doesn’t work :
@JohnM and @curtisw can you take a look at the above video? Maybe this will give you an idea of something we can try to diagnose this issue.
Hi !
When you’re done fixing this problem, could you please take a look at my interface enhancement requests ?
New and improved interface weirdness with the Text Dot dialog !
I copy/pasted a text dot, and everytime I select the new dot, this is what I get :
Thanks, Olivier. I see that here as well on Rhino 6.
I’ll have to go and figure out when this bug crept into some code - do you remember which version you were running before this started happening?
-wim
Hi Wim,
Well, I’m using 6 SR20 (6.20.19322.20361, 11/18/2019) right now, so since I do all the Service release updates.
Thanks again - so this didn’t happen in SR19? I’ll start there.
I filed RH-56254 for this bug.
-wim
OK, I just set up a spanking new MSI laptop with Windows 10 pro and my fresh Rhino install (latest WIP) already has trouble with the Dot dialog !!! JUST BLANK !!!
OSUI System.txt (2.3 KB)
The interface is BROKEN .
I just don’t understand why there’s not more people enraged about this !
I remember having issues with dialogues before related to V-Ray. Which V-Ray version do you use?
I wish I could point fingers at something else, but an earlier system info from Olivier shows no VRay installed on a system where he was having this issue. The bug seems very local to Olivier and his coworkers as I haven’t seen any other reports of this issue.
@JohnM do we have a test command to view all loaded modules for the Rhino process? Maybe there is a shell extension getting in the way that is specific to Olivier’s system
There’s nothing too “local” about my config, except I’m using Rhino in English and that my Windows 10 is set to French/French keyboard.
I remember there was at least another thread about this from someone not in France.
My guess is that there’s a bunch of people impacted, but not many bother to report.
As for me, I’m getting quite fed up to open a second Rhino instance to create my dot or text and paste it back in my model.
This is the middle-ages.
Ah ! This was the guy : Blank Floating Windows