Thanks Simon.
I'll try to tweak the registry as suggested. This bug
is quite annoying. I understand that there might be
driver and Windows issues. But nevertheless I have
used almost every 3d software on that system, except
for Houdini and not a single one has as many refresh
problems as XSI.
Thanks again Simon,
Luke
--- Simon Pickard <mail(at)simonpickard.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
>
>
> I'm sure I read that this is a windows problem to do
> with resources. Once
> it's out, i.e. if you have lots of windows open, etc
> parts of the interface
> start to fall off.
>
>
>
> If this is the case is there any way to:
>
>
>
> a.) Tell xsi to keep everything in memory.
>
> b.) Tell windows to allocate more memory to this
> area.
>
>
>
> I guess it's more a windows thing so I was just
> wondering if somewhere deep
> in the registry there's an entry we could increase
> to help out?
>
>
>
> It's not a show stopper though as I've found middle
> clicking on a window a
> few times then mute / un-muting that window tends to
> fix it anyhow.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Simon
>
>
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
> Brent McPherson
> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 8:22 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: Yet another 5.0 bug - missing viewport
> buttons
>
>
>
> Luke,
>
>
>
> There is a known bug where clicking on one of the
> new view layout icons (in
> the lower left) and then clicking on the 4 view
> layout icon (in the lower
> left) will cause the viewport icons to disappear.
> Clicking again on the 4
> view layout icon restores them in this case.
>
>
>
> In an application like XSI there can be many ways to
> accomplish the same
> thing so it is not impossible for something like
> this to fall through the
> cracks if the majority of our QA and Beta testers
> are used to working a
> different way. (or it could even be a hardware
> problem as mentioned by
> someone else) If you can consistently reproduce a
> problem the best thing to
> do is send a bug report to
> <mailto:support(at)softimage.com>
> support(at)softimage.com
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
>
> Brent
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
> lpiasecki76
> Sent: 04 October 2005 04:03
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: Yet another 5.0 bug - missing viewport
> buttons
>
> I'm puzzled how things like that make it through SI
> QA team.
>
>
>
> Luke
>
>
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
> Paul-Jozef "PJ" Torrevillas
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 9:27 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: RE: Yet another 5.0 bug - missing viewport
> buttons
>
>
>
> That has happened to me in 4.2. It's a refresh
> issue. Changing the view
> and changing it back normally does it for me.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> PJ
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of
> lpiasecki76
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 5:57 PM
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Yet another 5.0 bug - missing viewport
> buttons
>
>
>
> It happened to me a few times already when the
> buttons from a viewport (i.e.
> Camera and the Eye icons) were missing. The shading
> menu and camera memory
> buttons are visible. There seems to be no way to get
> those buttons back.
> Quite annoying.
>
>
>
> Luke
>
>
>
>
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