Notification tabs proliferating

[jeremy5 (Jeremy)]

Hi,

Just a minor irritation: I get more and more spurious Notification tabs (bells) appearing in my tabbed panels. Up to seven just now. Only one has any text. I can untick Notifications in the panel options and the legitimate one disappears but the rest remain and cannot be got rid of (and the next time I look at options, notifications is ticked again).

Appears to be benign, but nice if it could be fixed some time. Has been present through all Rhino 6 releases up to and including 6.6.18156.11421, 05/06/2018.

Thanks

[Andrew_Nowicki]

ResetMessageBoxes command resets all of the “Don’t ask me again…” dialog check boxes to “No.”

[jeremy5 (Jeremy)]

Hi Andrew,

There aren’t any dialogues. The tab labels are there, but there is absolutely nothing on the tabs - as here:

. The first notification says Licence obtained, the rest are like the one shown.

And, sadly, the empty tabs are unaffected by ResetMessageBoxes.

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hi Jeremy - can you run Help > System information… and paste the results here? thanks,

-Pascal

[jeremy5 (Jeremy)]

Rhino 6 SR6 2018-6-5 (Rhino 6, 6.6.18156.11421, Git hash:master @ 56799860400d22a41148fb77e55b1181e81ebe7b)
Licence type: Commercial, build 2018-06-05
License details: Cloud Zoo. In use by: Jeremy Swift ()

Windows 10.0 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 16Gb)
Machine name: SB-JEREMY

GeForce GPU/PCIe/SSE2 (OpenGL ver:4.6.0 NVIDIA 388.08)

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: Height

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 10-19-2017
Driver Version: 23.21.13.8808
Maximum Texture size: 16384 x 16384
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 16384 x 16384
Total Video Memory: 1 GB

C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 6.6.18156.11421
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 6.6.18156.11421
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”
C:\Program Files\Common Files\McNeel\Rhinoceros\6.0\Plug-ins\PanelingTools (6caed836-bc06-4ebc-b1fd-e10886a0dc94)\2018.3.1.650\PanelingTools.rhp “PanelingTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 6.6.18156.11421
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 6.6.18156.11421
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Calc.rhp “Calc”
C:\Program Files\Common Files\McNeel\Rhinoceros\6.0\Plug-ins\SectionTools (fbdb1d7f-8cfb-42c1-9858-87cb6315932c)\2018.1.9.1166\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hello - ok, thanks - nothing leaps out at me - there is an old item on our pile that was closed long ago because this or a similar problem showed up and then apparently went away - I am reopening it.

https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-40091

-Pascal

[jeremy5 (Jeremy)]

FWIW if trying to reproduce this, I don’t have administrator rights on my user account.

Jeremy

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hi Jeremy - got that, thanks. Added to the YT item.

-Pascal

[jeremy5 (Jeremy)]

Hi Pascal,

As the elements of the tabbed panels window are user-specific and persistent, where does Rhino 6 store the user’s choice of panels?

Regards
Jeremy

[JesseOgburn]

Hi Jeremy,
Don’t know if this is still relevant, but here is a workaround for the proliferating tabs until it gets resolved.
Grab the notification by the tab at the top and drag it into the main window. The tab becomes a separate panel that you can simply exit out of. This seems to work for me and every so often I just clean out a half dozen or so!

V/R
Jesse

[jeremy5 (Jeremy)]

Thanks for that, Jesse. After losing my settings, my extra tabs disappeared and I’m still down to a single notification tab but I’ll keep your workaround in mind lest they multiply again. It’s a clever solution.

Jeremy

[Per]

I also have this problem for quite sometime now and the workaround mentioned by Jesse works but its kind of annoying always have to do this way.


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[fjg85]

same here, any progress on this issue?

ResetMessageBoxes doesn’t remove them…

[Derek_Heming]

I have this same exact problem. On my personal copy of R6 at home there are 7 empty notification tabs, the R6 copy I use at work has 2 empty notification tabs, and my coworker right behind me has 9 empty notification tabs in his copy of R6.

[jeremy5 (Jeremy)]

Hi Derek,

I haven’t seen this on my machine for a while (I hope I don’t regret saying that ). I’m running Rhino 6.12.

Regards
Jeremy

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hi Derek - can you please run SystemInfo in Rhino and post the result?

-Pascal

[Derek_Heming]

This is from my personal copy on my laptop:

Rhino 6 SR12 2019-1-29 (Rhino 6, 6.12.19029.6381, Git hash:master @ ae9d7fba5fda0b43002dc44a34e059a9a382db04)
License type: Commercial, build 2019-01-29
License details: Cloud Zoo. In use by: Derek Heming ()

Windows 10.0 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 16Gb)
Machine name: MSI

Non-hybrid graphics.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (NVidia) Memory: 6GB, Driver date: 1-30-2019 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 418.81

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On

Anti-alias mode: 8x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: Height

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 1-30-2019
Driver Version: 25.21.14.1881
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 6 GB

Rhino plugins
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 6.12.19029.6381
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\AnimationTools.rhp “AnimationTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 6.12.19029.6381
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 6.12.19029.6381
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 6.12.19029.6381
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Calc.rhp “Calc”

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

Hello - thanks - I’m investigating - this was a problem earlier in V6 and was fixed, but apparently not quite - @aj1 - do you have an idea? Looks like the message is about Accounts…

-Pascal

[aj1 (Andrés Jacobo)]

We’ve known about this issue for a long time but was never out there in public enough to take priority. I don’t believe this has anything to do with the actual notifications but with the way that Rhino renders the notifications panel.

[Derek_Heming]

Also here is the SystemInfo from my coworker’s computer:

Rhino 6 SR13 2019-2-4 (Rhino 6, 6.13.19035.17431, Git hash:master @ 4db2f1dae993e341aa4a75f0ae541637efc4b3c0)
License type: Commercial, build 2019-02-04
License details: Cloud Zoo. In use by: james piazza ()

Windows 7 SP1 (Physical RAM: 32Gb)
Machine name: JIM-PC

Non-hybrid graphics.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (NVidia) Memory: 3GB, Driver date: 5-22-2018 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 397.93

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: Height

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 5-22-2018
Driver Version: 24.21.13.9793
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 3 GB

Rhino plugins
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 6.13.19035.17431
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoCAM 2019 for R6\RhinoCAM 2019 For Rhino6.0.rhp “RhinoCAM 2019 - The cutting edge CAM plug-in for Rhino 6.0 from MecSoft Corporation”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 6.13.19035.17431
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”
C:\Users\JIM\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\6.0\Plug-ins\PanelingTools (6caed836-bc06-4ebc-b1fd-e10886a0dc94)\2018.3.1.650\PanelingTools.rhp “PanelingTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoCAM 2019 for R6\RhinoArt1FileExporter For Rhino6.0.rhp “RhinoArt1FileExporter”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 6.13.19035.17431
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 6.13.19035.17431
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”