PabloS opened this issue on Sep 13, 2002 ยท 108 posts
Mason posted Fri, 13 September 2002 at 2:14 PM
Steve, can you do anything about the Modeless Dialog problems in P5. I can understand some dialogs being Modeless like the material nodes etc. But when Poser asks for a file I should not be able to click on other controls till that dialog is cleared. This is extremely evident in P4 with the materials dialog. I can bring up the old dialog, click on the button for selecting a texture. The open file dialog appears. I can then click again on the texture open button and get another open dialog. Other people have reported this error in P5. One of the huge problems I see and one of the biggest reasons for percieved lock ups is when a user gets a dialog prompt, clicks on a button but that event is passed down to a lower dialog which also clicks on a control or changes a setting. This obviously puts P5 in a bind since it has a dialog open yet gets another command to do something else. Now I don't know if it was your intention to have P5 be multitasking ie we can set materials while rendering etc. but, if its not then please think about changing the UI so it is not all Modeless, especially for prompt boxes. I know it also an issue with OS. I have 2k, xp and 98 boxes and it does this on all 3 platforms.