Quite often during long executions when I let Rhino sit there either in front of me or backgrounded, the Grasshopper window completely disappears and I must exit the Rhino window and reenter it using the task bar to get Grasshopper to pop back to visible. Typing “Grasshopper” again doesn’t help.
Similarly frustrating is how minimized Grasshopper on the lower left corner often fails to expand again at all but expands in the same size so I must drag its size bigger in place so I can then move it to a normal location on the right.
The first problem has been going on for years! This is still happening in every version so far of WIP too.
I have never experienced the first issue. Perhaps you mean that Grasshopper gets minimized while running a calculation, which you can bring it up if you just minimize and maximize the Rhino window.
I think this is a Windows issue not Rhino’s since I get the behavior also with other applications.
Regarding the second issue. Why not just double click Grasshopper’s titlebar instead of minimizing it?
yes, both things also happen to me all the time, my Rhino is fully updated, same for windows 10
for the first problem, when the GH windows disappears, I usualy double ALT+TAB and it comes back in foreground: I think it’s something related to the GH process being “buried in calculations” because most of the times it happens when heavy definitions get updated or re-calculated from scratch
the weird thing is that all the GH geometry previews are still on my screen, it’s just the GH windows which goies in background (or just disappears) until I recall the Rhinoceros windows
about the second problem, that is the reason why I don’t minimize it anymore, I just drag it almost completely out of the screen… but this is also not a solution to the problem
Years, indeed, exact same issue on all WIPs too so far in Windows 10. Long calculations especially and sometimes the Grasshopper window comes back on its own when the Rhino preview finally updates but I don’t rely on that since I end up waiting too long when it fails.
when it happens to me (when waiting for a long calculation) I hover my mouse over the Rhino icon in the taskbar and then click on the rhino preview window that pops up and this brings up Rhino with GH window in its normal position.
It still disappears doing the simplest tasks like setting a few points, and it is not there in the AltTab array. Win 10 dual screen set up. Does not happen in any other app I use. In setting points just because the focus goes back to the Rhino window, the handle to the GH window is losing its display properties. How can this take years to fix?
