One more clue:
If I start from a NON-maximized MoI window, there is no problem.
(as far as I have minimally tested.)
- B

Yes ! well done Brian

If i reduce the window there is no problem indeed.

Another very minor topic:
In v3, when I close a script, then do a right click, the script will repeat, using previously altered options from the dialog region, upper right corner.
In v4, after a script is closed, right click repeats the script, using original options.
Maybe a minor .ini setting?
EDIT, I may be PARTLY wrong in the above statements :-) (I'll do some more testing.)

- Brian

ps, got a grid of Truchet tiles to work. (Script still needs some work.)
v4 is near instantaneous.
v3 is quite slow, due to .js as previously explained by MG.

Brian,

In v4, after a script is closed, right click repeats the script, using original options.

i've tested with DistortCurves script and options changed are here

Yes, now I am able to duplicate this 'freeze' problem.
Open MoI 4
Hide it using the - key in the upper right corner of the screen.
Open another program ... shut it down.
Bring MoI back to full screen by clicking on the MoI icon.
Commands are frozen.
Reduce MoI to part screen. Open it to full screen again.
Now it works.

For me this is intermittent. It does not happen each time I follow the same routine.

cheers,
eric

Hi Finema,
I've edited my "repeating scripts vs options" post, as being partly wrong. :-)- Brian.

But partly right.
Using LineWeb as an example, MoI3 preserves Build options upon exit of command and right click.
MoI4 does not preserve Build options upon exit of command, and subsequent right click repeat of command, but does preserve closed checkbox.

- Brian

Running the latest v4 Beta Mac Version (on El Capitan, 10.11.6) when I create second window a new moi3d app is launched, Just checking this is not the expected behaviour ?

But the app is looking great on a retina Mac laptop.

Colin

Seems a replicate variation of my freezing Moi / Forum / Moi! ;)
So I am not alone in the space! :D
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=8675.103

Hi Michael and everyone.

I can confirm the same issue raised by Finema :


1•Click lightbulb to open MoI v4, MoI works normally, draw a circle, square, etc.
2•Click lightbulb to "hide" v4.
3•Click lightbulb to "unhide" v4.
The dialog window in the upper righthand corner no longer functions. It is blank, or frozen depending upon state before hide/unhide.

I use Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit.

Thanks.

I can also confirm finerma
dialog locks up after hiding/unhiding v4

I also use win 10 pro 64 bit

thanks,

Val

All right, well that gives me some more things to try, and it's also interesting that the hide/show problem is cross platform as well.

- Michael

Hi Colin,

> Running the latest v4 Beta Mac Version (on El Capitan, 10.11.6) when I create second window a new
> moi3d app is launched, Just checking this is not the expected behaviour ?

Yeah unfortunately this is going to be the way that I have to make it work. MoI expects that each main program window has its own thread and process but there isn't any way on Mac for multiple processes to share a single dock icon.

The way that Apple has implemented multiple windows in its standard application infrastructure is problematic because they have them all inside the same process and sharing a single UI thread which means they can interfere with each other in various ways. If one crashes for example they all crash because they aren't running in separate processes.

So this (multiple app windows) is an area where the standard Apple way is just not good and I don't expect to have MoI follow the standard behavior for this particular thing.

- Michael

I think someone mentioned this.
'Snaps' have stopped working for me ... and this seems to have migrated to V3.
mid, int, end etc have stopped working.
Windows 10 ..
eric

Hi eric, are they all enabled on the menu? :


And object snap turned on (highlighted in orange on the main button) ?

- Michael

Ok, I've finally been able to reproduce the UI freezing problem over here, seems to be easier to reproduce on Windows. When it happens it looks like clicks still do stuff but nothing visually updates. I'll be digging into it.

- Michael

Hi Michael
No the object snap icon is not on. That is true of both V3 and V4.
but ...
I tried to turn it on in V4 and it did not work. So I opened V3 ... turned it on there and it was on when I reopened V4 .. and it works just fine.
thanks
eric

<< Ok, I've finally been able to reproduce the UI freezing problem over here

:)

Maybe difficult to find the solution!
All these operating systems are like a jungle!
Good luck!

Another bit ...
I then tried to save the file and it was frozen again.
I reduced it from full screen ... still would not work.
Back to full screen .. not frozen .. icons all worked and it saved just fine.
I hope that's a working clue.
cheers,
eric

Ok, so the freezing UI thing is a bug in Qt:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-39220
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14554903/widgets-freezing-after-minimise-window

Shouldn't be hard to solve it, I'll see if I can fix it and a few other things and have a new build tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks everyone for reporting it and narrowing it down!

- Michael

Hi Pilou,

> Seems a replicate variation of my freezing Moi / Forum / Moi! ;)
> So I am not alone in the space! :D

Yup, it's the same one. The tricky part was it had to do with the window being maximized and then not just switching to another app but minimizing the MoI window.

I think the problem on Mac is the same thing as well but I'm not 100% sure about that one, I haven't been able to replicate it there.

Hopefully the same one fix will solve all these.

- Michael