Blank Data Display Bar

[PeterT]

In VectorWorks 9.5, why does the Data Display Bar go blank when you select any of the following tools: Protractor, Tape Measure, Eyedropper, Trim Tool, or Offset?

This has got to be a bug as this was not the case in VectorWorks 8.

It is rather bothersome as you cannot change layers or classes when you have one of these tools chosen.

[Matthew Giampapa]

This is fixed in the next major release, sorry for the inconvenience.

You could press the space bar to hot-switch to pan tool, make your change and go back to the tool you were using.

Matthew GiampapaNNA Technical Support

[TiTaNiuM sAMuRai]

Does that include blank class and layer names?

[PeterT]

Yes, the entire display bar is blank including the layer and class pull-downs.

I have discovered though, if you use the selected tool anyway, even though you may be on the wrong layer, the data display bar magically comes back, and you can then delete what you just did, switch to the correct layer, and do it again.

Knowing what causes a problem is half the battle, so you you can avoid the problem, or find a work around. It took me a month to figure ot that it was these tools that caused the blank display. Before that, I just thought it was randomly going blank from time to time.

[TiTaNiuM sAMuRai]

I was asking Matt if when only the class and layer names disappeared, was solved. Also, arc creation fields appearing while drawing rectangles or using the tape measure.