Version 8 SR6
(8.6.24079.11001, 2024-03-19)
Location: Options / Rhino Options / Plug-ins
When Ask to load disabled plug-ins is checked, and Rhino is restarted, if window asking the user to load the plug-in gets lost due to the user having multiple windows open, the window does not show up on the list of running applications by using ALT-TAB, however it does show up when using WIN-TAB.
It should show up on both.
hi @Mike24 I could not repeat that behavior here on Windows 11. Are you running a different Windows version?
@Gijs - Here’s my info:
Rhino 8 SR6 2024-3-19 (Rhino 8, 8.6.24079.11001
Windows 10 (10.0.19045 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 128GB)
.NET Framework 4.8.9181.0
Any ideas?
I just verified that this is still a problem. I am open to having someone control this PC via a remote assistance session if needed.
We could not reproduce this on Win 10 either.
Pls run _SystemInfo in Rhino and post back the results, hopefully that gives more information
Rhino 8 SR6 2024-3-19 (Rhino 8, 8.6.24079.11001, Git hash:master @ 0d13b06881495403bd28e1cee93f8c8ea0baec7c)
License type: Commercial, build 2024-03-19
License details: Cloud Zoo
Windows 10 (10.0.19045 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 128GB)
.NET Framework 4.8.9181.0
Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [4% battery remaining]
Hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display: Intel(R) UHD Graphics (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 3-16-2023 (M-D-Y).
Integrated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)
Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High
Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 1-2-2024
Driver Version: 31.0.15.3818
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 4 GB
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\SimLab\Plugins\SimLab PDF From Rhino\SimLabPDFExporter.rhp “SimLab PDF Exporter”
C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\CodeListener (8c4235b6-64bc-4508-9166-bef8aa151085)\0.1.7.0\Rhino 5.0\x64\CodeListener.rhp “CodeListener” 0.1.7.0
C:\Program Files\Common Files\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\ClippingBox (4dfff1df-5f09-43ae-a044-77b115244b02)\1.0.0.0\Rhino 6\ClippingBox.rhp “ClippingBox” 1.0.0.0
Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.6.24079.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.6.24079.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.6.24079.11001
C:\Users\Mike\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\8.0\PanelingTools\2021.3.2.446\PanelingTools.rhp “PanelingTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.6.24079.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.6.24079.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.6.24079.11001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
@Gijs - Did you get the sysinfo?
Hi @Mike24 sorry but I still have no clue why that wouldn’t work on your system.
If you start Rhino and wait, does it show the dialog on top? Or maybe you can make a screen recording of how you are doing it so that we can try to reproduce?
@Gijs - Ya it shows it on top. But if you switch to a different application then it’s very difficult to get back to the window. I uploaded a video (screen recording). See the link below. Alt-Tab does not work as show at 0:00:11 - 0:00:17, 0:00:27, 0:00:35. Notice also that there is no active Rhino icon on the taskbar. Win-Tab does display the window for the user to change to it as shown in the video at 0:00:20 and 0:00:39.
So the following changes should be made regarding this subject when the disabled plugin window is initialized:
I’m glad we can still access the window by using Win-Tab.
Hope this helps.
@Gijs - The way I ran into this issue is I had started Rhino and got a call. I had to immediately lookup an email so I switched to that application and could not get back to Rhino via Alt-Tab or clicking on Rhino on the taskbar. Fortunately, Win-Tab worked. It should work via all 3 methods.
hi @Mike24 I still cannot reproduce what you are getting. I don’t get a task bar icon either, but the dialog does show up when pressing Alt-Tab here.
@Gijs - Ok weird. I do have 7+ Taskbar Tweaker installed which manipulates how Windows works. I was going to stop 7+TT and test this issue again since it’s only happening on my machine. I updated Rhino this morning to Version 8 SR7; (8.7.24113.23001, 2024-04-22) and all of a sudden Rhino is not asking me at all about disabled plugins on startup so something changed between SR6 and SR7. Once this is fixed, I will test this again. Can you test on your machine to make sure it’s not asking at all about disabled plugins with SR7?