peliosis Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 I'm sure many people suffer from that thing. After some unidentified combination of condisions, houdini sets intself in "ignore right click acknowledge" mode and it doesn't let you finish selection with rmb (in any operation). I know there is a solution in double clicking tab button but that's just not as fluent as normal way. So I restart my session every time this error happens to fix it. Does anybody know what is going on? This made me kill my 5$ keyboard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaJuice Posted January 29, 2006 Share Posted January 29, 2006 It happened to me right now. Double-tabbing doesn't fix anything for me (at least not permanently), so I just restart Houdini. It's a well know problem, but I don't think they've been able to reproduce it, thus no fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peliosis Posted January 29, 2006 Author Share Posted January 29, 2006 It happened to me right now. Double-tabbing doesn't fix anything for me (at least not permanently), so I just restart Houdini.It's a well know problem, but I don't think they've been able to reproduce it, thus no fix. 24251[/snapback] I'll happily reproduce it for anybody! Give me 5 minutes . No matter windows or linux. It happens very often for me. I hope they can fix it sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 crazy... cause I was almost punching my table for exact same reason.. and actually i was angry about the fact that this bug is still there.. c'mon.. its so damn annoying specially since its a indispensable way to complete commands... It happends many times to me when in Edit and Group SOPs. I love and I'm addicted to this software.. and I'm pointing at using it for next years over and over.. but i must say that this sucks really much. Also, it happens really often... and they only way (apparently) is save, exit, reload, pray until next time it happens. anyway.. let's hope they will fix sooner or later.. as far as I know Houdini or saw it first time (around version 4).. I also know this bug, which is kinda crazy. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 The main problem is with tracking this down. I suspect it's highly sensitive to timing of the clicks of the mouse and its movement. We had thought we found one cause for it and fixed it a while back but after 8.0.410. Is everyone using 8.0.474 or later? There may also be multiple actions that result in similar symptoms. At this point, I'm guessing that the actions we were told resulted in the behaviour is actually different from what others are actually doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 I am on .474 on XP sp2 Nvidia Quadro FX1300.... cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Ok, so it's still a persistent problem. Anyone got ideas on how to reproduce? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 Ok, so it's still a persistent problem. Anyone got ideas on how to reproduce? 24264[/snapback] sadly not.. but this happens most often (to me) when reselecting, for example, the edit from the netview.. then pressing enter in viewport to go to "edit" mode... and the select the primitives (or points) and left clicking to confirm.. this will get usually me angry ... cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 You mean right-clicking to confirm? Do you have secure selection enabled? Given all the attempts at trying to figure out this problem, a very detailed pattern will need to be given if we have any hope of nailing this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 yeah sorry .. i mean right click to confirm.. which instead it removes the selection and remain in "select" mode... and no.. i'm not in secure selection since first option i usually check off when installing houdini on a fresh machine is to stay off secure selection in both SOP and OBJ mode. I'm always in "selectable" mode this is what i mean. the problem almost comes out when you goes with many edits.. then you might click on some nodes to check parameters.. then reselect edit and press Enter in viewport to go on (or in group SOP) .. and there it comes the bad.. rightclick wont confirm the new selection. cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 By "reselect", then do you mean something like just hitting Enter and then drawing a box in the viewport? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 yup or even by using the ` key to "reselect" (with group SOP for example) in both cases .. it wont let you confirm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edward Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 By then it's too late though. Any idea on why only sometimes it goes into the bad state and not other times? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 this may not help at all but... the only times this has happened to me is during a long session of selecting (points/prims) > edit/paint/etc > ` to reselect > edit/paint/etc > ` to reselect...rinse/repeat then I'll get the viewport freeze....TAB TAB all back to normal... I don't know about such things but it feels like the viewport just gets tired of working (some kind of buffer thing?).... ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sibarrick Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 I wonder if someone who can easily reproduce it could use a screen capture util to record their actions during a session, then it could be played back and carefully analyzed by someone to see what is going wrong. assuming using a screen capture util doesn't cause it itself..... You can get plenty of screen capture try outs for free and they are easy to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visual Cortex Lab Posted January 30, 2006 Share Posted January 30, 2006 nice thought Arctor... I second you .. specially since this happens almost (sorry i forgot to mention this) when I "model" something.. other than using houdini for FX or such... so it might really be related to a sort of buffer or whatever else it fill the "viewport stack" ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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