Open dialog box issue
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Topic: Open dialog box issue
Posted By: jcastle
Subject: Open dialog box issue
Date Posted: 17.Sep.2008 at 15:12
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I cannot get my "Open..." (ctrl+o) dialog box to show up when i have an drawing already open. The command line shows the function being active but nothing happens. I can get it to show up if i close out of all active drawings. I can still use windows explorer to open multiple projects but it is very inconvenient. Normally i would just reset my computer back a week using system restore, but the company network went down last week and i don't want to lose the change in registry files. Any help would be grateful. |
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Posted By: Vladimir Michl
Date Posted: 17.Sep.2008 at 15:19
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You may have your dialog "off-screen". Try to increase your Windows resolution or press Alt+Shift+space, down-arrow and try to "hunt" your dialog back to screen with the arrow keys. ------------- Vladimir Michl (moderator) ARKANCE - https://arkance.world" rel="nofollow - https://arkance.world - Autodesk Platinum Partner |
Posted By: jcastle
Date Posted: 17.Sep.2008 at 15:46
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Thank you for the quick response Vladimir but it does not appear that dialog box is offscreen. Its almost like the command line is a dead link while there is a drawing already open. Normally if i have the "open" dialog box active i can alt+tab and see AutoCAD say "select file". In this case, as soon as there is a drawing open I can use any command line to open a file and command line shows at the bottom of the screen but nothing happens. After looking more into this I see that the "new" command line does not work as well. Unless once again, all drawings are closed out of AutoCAD. |
Posted By: jcastle
Date Posted: 17.Sep.2008 at 16:03
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okay, its fixed for the time being... I don't know what happened but I was trying to see if the same issue would occur in project manager. I opened a project and the browser worked fine. When i was showing the issue to a co-worker my "open" dialog box is working again.  |
Posted By: Vladimir Michl
Date Posted: 17.Sep.2008 at 16:13
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Maybe Windows had not enough resources (memory) to open another window (dialog). ------------- Vladimir Michl (moderator) ARKANCE - https://arkance.world" rel="nofollow - https://arkance.world - Autodesk Platinum Partner |
Posted By: Arben.Allaraj
Date Posted: 19.Sep.2008 at 15:09
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Check SDI Mode: ------------- Ing Arben.Allaraj http://cad-drafting-corner.blogspot.com |
jcastle wrote:Posted By: wilgey
Date Posted: 29.Oct.2008 at 00:25
| I have the same issue has anyone found the how to solve this problem? |
Posted By: Kajito
Date Posted: 29.Oct.2008 at 17:59
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easy one:
type in "filedia" and set to "1" if set to "0" the dialog box will not open. Hopefuly it will help next time ... |
Posted By: wilgey
Date Posted: 29.Oct.2008 at 18:39
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Yes this worked!! Thanks |