Disappearing Palettes

[Driscoll]

I am running VW 2008 SP2 on a Macbook Pro running Mac OS 10.5.2.

It seems that when I use Expose to go to another program that my palettes disappear. The only way for me to get to them back is to go to my palettes drop down and uncheck them and then recheck them, or for me to swap workspaces.

This is pretty annoying and takes a lot of time that I don't have to constantly be trying to reopen palettes.

Does anyone know the answer to this?

-Driscoll

[markdd]

I have noticed something similar.

What I have been doing is clicking away from the open Vectorworks window on to an area of desktop and then clicking back on to the application window which brings all the palettes back. I had assumed it was a peculiarity with my set-up as I have two monitors.

Hope that helps a little

Mark

[rb-arch]

I too have this problem when I uses Spaces. It is annoying, and VW is the only software on my machine with this issue. When I switch back to it from another space, the some of the pallets disappear. I was hoping this would be fixed in the last patch.

[rDesign]

I am also having this same disappearing palette behavior when using Leopard's 'Spaces' with VW2008. It doesn't happen with Expose, only Spaces. And it's not always the same palette that's missing. But it's pretty easy to duplicate the behavior.

Edit #1: I also discovered that after a palette disappears, you no longer get visual selection indication (the animated throbbing).

Edit #2: And if (for example) you go to 'Preferences > Display > Selection Indication' to make sure the animated selection indication is still active, after you hit OK or Cancel, it will open an underlaying Finder window, yet still leave VW as the active application. This happens with not just the Preferences window, but any time you press the Return Key for any dialogue box.

Very Strange.

Bottom Line: I guess that if you're using VW2008, you should NOT use Leopard's Spaces until this gets fixed.

Tim

Edited March 24, 2008 by rDesign

[rb-arch]

Since I posted, I realized it is not Spaces that makes my palettes disappear in VW, it is picking the VW icon in the tray when I am in another application. I find this a quick way of switching applications.

[markdd]

I am not sure you are right about this... Your previous post seems more accurate. I took your advise and turned spaces off when using VW and the problem disappeared.

Mark

[David Sumner Design]

At least I"m not alone. I too am having this reported problem. I'm running Architect 2008. It's spaces and VW. It seems that switching spaces or choosing any icon from the dock causes the VW palettes to vanish. The cure, don't use spaces with VW.