2012 iMac DAZ Studio UI problems

marble

Hi,

I have recently migrated from Windows 7 to iMac and, while I'm totally in love with my pretty new toy, I have noticed a few niggles in the DAZ Studio interface (I'm not at home at the moment so can't post any screen shots).

What happens is that when I switch panels by clicking the tabs down the left or right hand side, the layout becomes slightly corrupted (the panels don't fit together nicely). If I continue switching, eventually I lose the mouse pointer and have to shut down DAZ Studio and restart.

My iMac is a late 2012, 27" i7 with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5. I have 24Gb memory.

Anyone else had to deal with this or any ideas of what I can do to diagnose the problem?

StratDragon

marble said:

Hi,

I have recently migrated from Windows 7 to iMac and, while I'm totally in love with my pretty new toy, I have noticed a few niggles in the DAZ Studio interface (I'm not at home at the moment so can't post any screen shots).

What happens is that when I switch panels by clicking the tabs down the left or right hand side, the layout becomes slightly corrupted (the panels don't fit together nicely). If I continue switching, eventually I lose the mouse pointer and have to shut down DAZ Studio and restart.

My iMac is a late 2012, 27" i7 with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX 2GB GDDR5. I have 24Gb memory.

Anyone else had to deal with this or any ideas of what I can do to diagnose the problem?

Your OS should be on 10.8.2, there were nvidia updates for that model mac.

If you're at that OS already you may want to test your RAM
http://osxdaily.com/2011/05/03/memtest-mac-ram-test/

Could you do a before and after screen shot (CMD+SHIFT+4) and post the difference? I have a system I might be able to try and duplicate this behavior on if they don't need it for actual "job" stuff at my office.

and don't DL the stupid Mac Keeper at the big link that just says "DOWNLOAD", that thing is mac crapware.

marble

Since I posted this, I have found others having similar problems here in this thread:

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/14562/P285/#286908

It does not appear to be OS related but perhaps it has something to do with the Wacom tablet which seems common to those who have the vanishing mouse problem.

StratDragon

marble said:

Since I posted this, I have found others having similar problems here in this thread:

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/14562/P285/#286908

It does not appear to be OS related but perhaps it has something to do with the Wacom tablet which seems common to those who have the vanishing mouse problem.

The phenomenon is known as submarineing
If the Wacom tablet is the source of it then there's your answer.

marble

I did disconnect the Wacom last night and had no further issues with the mouse pointer, etc. Not conclusive but encouraging so far.

scotchfairy

Speaking of things that don't meet MacOS UI:

WHY does "Undo" work so erratically in Studio and Hexagon? It's a well-known enough problem that some tutorials will tell you that you cannot undo at various points in an operation. Worse, "undo" seems to stay stuck at whatever it did last, so if I forget and hit "undo" I may get a very unexpected result. I spent less than five minutes playing with the program and could tell this wasn't a MacOS-native application. For a mature app, it breaks MacOS-UI in too many different ways (not to mention that most of the plugins seem to only sort of run under MacOS).

It's a much better port than a lot of programs I've come across, but Undo failing to work consistently is a huge UI violation.