Rhino blocked by dialog behind other Rhino windows

Discovered a weird bug. (This might have something to do with the computer going to sleep and then coming back up. Or maybe not.)

I have to screens. On one screen is the main window. On the other screen three windows with Properties, Layers and in this case Linetypes.

When I make Rhino active, the program seems to function normally. I tried to do Isolate one one object, but weirdly it disappeared instead of being isolated. Then I tried to select the ClippingSection object. That was possibly, but the properties of the ClippingSection did not show up. Now I was quite curious what was going on…

I looked again on my screen and discovered that behind those three windows was a hidden “Section Style” dialog. Which was only visible when another application was active. Not when Rhino was active. So as far as I understand that dialog is wrecking havoc on Rhino and it’s impossible to access/click on.

Seems that killing Rhino is the only option to get out of this.

Weirdly enough commands run as usual, below find the SystemInfo:

(This is the same file I send to tech@mcneel.com last week … it has stayed open on my computer since then …)

/Erik

Rhino 8 SR8 2024-6-18 (Rhino 8, 8.8.24170.13001, Git hash:master @ c3cc7c123163b65d85b517aff795627d5b12166b)
License type: Commercial, build 2024-06-18
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 11 (10.0.22631 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 63GB)
.NET 7.0.0

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display: AMD Radeon™ Graphics (AMD) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 10-19-2022 (M-D-Y).
> Accelerated graphics device with 5 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0
Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA RTX A2000 12GB (NVidia) Memory: 12GB, Driver date: 5-23-2024 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 552.55
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #0

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: 5-23-2024
Driver Version: 31.0.15.5255
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 12282 MB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Next Limit\MaxQ for Rhino\MaxQ_Rhino7.rhp “MaxQ Render for Rhino” 1.0.1.0

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 8.8.24170.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoBonusTools.rhp “Rhino Bonus Tools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 8.8.24170.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 8.8.24170.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 8.8.24170.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 8.8.24170.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 8.8.24170.13001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 8\Plug-ins\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

Seems it is possible to kill the dialog somehow. The dialog (Section Style) seems to be a non-modal dialog than can be left floating somewhere on the screen. Rhino seems to work (albeit in a strange fashion) when the dialog exists somewhere.

In my case it was behind another window (Layers) and was hard to get at.

This behaviour occurs (one case) when the Section Style dialog is invoked from the Layers dialog.

Maybe this is the error? That it should be modal? As it is now:

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The questions at the bottom needs no answers … They can just float around.

And while this is the case, the “Isolate” command works in reverse. And selecting ClippingSections do not show their properties. I presume more things work weirdly.

Pretty sure there is some kind of bug here.

/Erik

Section Style Bug

Here is a animation when I’m trying to kill the dialog.

And yes, the problem is that you need to click the dialog first and then do the selection. If clicking directly on the buttons will show the Layer window instead. You can get out of the loop by clicking somewhere else in the dialog and it then becomes active. Then it is possible to disable.

Hi @erik6,

We’re looking at this, trying to repeat.

The Section Style dialog, displayed from the Layers panel, is semi-modal meaning it’s a modal dialog that allows for view-related commands and such.

– Dale