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View Controls disappear in DS

TaozTaoz Posts: 9,973
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I'm having a strange problem with the View Controls in DS 32 4.6.0.18 in XP. If they're in Cube mode and I select "Cartoon Shaded" the controls become invisible (see screenshot) except for the Orbit control. The others are still there, and I can access them by clicking the right places, but I can't make them visible again without restarting DS. If I shift to "Docked" mode they become visible again as a toolbar, but disappear again if I shift back to Cube mode.

Does anyone else experience this or is it a local problem on this machine? I can't reproduce it in DS 64 (also 4.6.0.18) in Win 7.
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  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited December 1969

    I don't have the disappearing problem in win7-64. It could be the vid card or perhaps even your background color. Right now I have a middling gray and find the circles hard to see. The box itself displays fine.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    If you click the little paper icon in the upper right of the viewport controls, do you have the auto-hide settings enabled?

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,973
    edited December 1969

    Vaskania said:
    If you click the little paper icon in the upper right of the viewport controls, do you have the auto-hide settings enabled?

    No - besides, if I had, the controls would normally show up when you hover the mouse over them, which they don't. They do however if I click where the buttons are supposed to be. And auto-hide doesn't work after they have become invisible, btw.

    It's only when I select "Cartoon Shaded" it happens - none of the other view options causes it.

  • Lissa_xyzLissa_xyz Posts: 6,116
    edited December 1969

    I can't reproduce it in either 4.6.1.17 or 4.6.2.23. Is there anything in your log file when it happens (help > troubleshooting > log file)?

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,973
    edited December 1969

    Vaskania said:
    I can't reproduce it in either 4.6.1.17 or 4.6.2.23. Is there anything in your log file when it happens (help > troubleshooting > log file)?

    Nothing unusual in the log file.

    I've tried to upgrade to 4.6.1.17 now, and now the controls go black instead of becoming invisible.

    I can also see from the change log that they've been fixing something with the Cartoon Shaded view:

    "Fixed #50686 : Program crashes when Cartoon Shaded is selected"

    Anyway, not a big problem to me as I'm going 64 bit soon, just thought it might be a bug that needed to be reported. But apparently no one else here have the problem. Like I said I don't have the problem in DS 64 in Win 7, and the machine that I have that on is completely identical hardware wise, so I assume its a software/driver problem.

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