Hi rbowser -

Sorry - no show stoppers here with the 3305 patch installed.

Text in menus behaves as expected, evidenced in standard templates, saved (modified) templates, & those built from scratch.

All menus displayed correct text in menu designer & preview. Didn't test with burnt DVD, but expect they'd be the same.

Is your keyboard OK? Wireless? Batteries?

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: Hi rbowser -

Sorry - no show stoppers here with the 3305 patch installed.

Text in menus behaves as expected, evidenced in standard templates, saved (modified) templates, & those built from scratch.

All menus displayed correct text in menu designer & preview. Didn't test with burnt DVD, but expect they'd be the same.

Is your keyboard OK? Wireless? Batteries?

Cheers - Tony

Hi, Tony - I appreciate you checking on that. Since the menus are working for you, I'll need to run as many tests as possible tomorrow when I'm back at it.

I do have a wireless keyboard that runs on batteries. I'm whizzing away on it right now as I type this. I've tested writing Word documents, using other programs that use text - everything is working normally. Only the text boxes in PD9's menus are displaying this problem. And it started happening immediately after running the 3305 upgrade.

So isn't that odd? My keyboard is clearly working at 100% - With the previous PD patch, menu text behaved normally - now I have this.

--Impossible to figure out until I do more tests, though I'm not quite sure what they should be - I guess I'll try new batteries, even though I can see for myself as my fingers fly on the keyboard, typing this response, that there's nothing unusual or even sluggish in the keyboard's response.

Even though you took the time to investigate this, and weren't able to confirm the problem, I still do hope other people test this soon. As with many glitches, it could be some particular combination of hardware and software on my computer.

I certainly hope to figure this out--and immediately. I can't finish any of my projects with the menus not working.---glooom. Like I said earlier, I'll re-install the previous version and put up with super sluggish time line response and freezing preview screen if I have to - I obviously have to have the menus working, so that has to take precedence over having the speedy program I thought I was buying in the first place. oh man.---what's going on?

rbowser

Just a comment about wireless peripherals. Last year I installed a patch just at the time my wireless mouse started acting up. I thought bugger Cyberlink has stuffed up.

I could click on anything on the screen of PD accept the time line. Certainly weird. Well after a lot of testing I realised the only thing I had changed was I had just plugged in a usb cord beside the wireless usb receiver for the mouse.

I removed the usb cord and everything returned to normal. The usb wireless receiver was just over a metre away from the mouse and maybe too far away. The only thing I can think is adding the usb cord was just enough to interfere with the wireless signal. My youtube channel====> http://www.youtube.com/user/relate2?feature=mhsn

I'm very happy and extremely relieved to report that this problem is over.

I can't believe it - Earlier in the day when I first discovered the issue with menu text, after trying a number of things, I re-started the computer. When the problem was still there, I re-started again.

Well, dummy me, I didn't Completely power down and re-boot. How many times do I have to make that mistake. Re-start isn't the same as a complete re-boot at all.

I have No idea why things got balled up, all I know is that after re-booting, the menu text behaves completely normally.

--So--I've edited the subject line so that people won't be misled into thinking there's something wrong with PD in this regard. My bad.

Thank you all--I'll try to be more careful in the future!

rbowser

A problem with text sometimes coming out scrambled while working on menus came up for me right after the 3305 update patch.

On this thread I discovered that the problem would go away if I completely shut the computer down and re-booted.

I'm giving this thread the light of day again because the problem still comes up. Out of the blue, suddenly I can't successfully type on my menus. Some letters will be skipped, others will show up out of order.

It's happened several times since I started this thread. I'll be re-booting after I post this, and I'm confident that will fix the problem.

But this remains an odd issue. PD9 is the Only program I have where this sometimes happens - and not before the 3305 patch.

RB

Follow up: Once again, shutting the computer down and re-starting solved the scrambled text problem. I seriously doubt I'm the only one who's ever had this problem. There's something wrong with the current version of PD9 in this regard, well, there are several things wrong - but this is one of them.

RB

rbowser,

Just for fun, change all of your keyboard and mouse batteries and update the driver, if any for your mouse and keyboard.

If you open the Device manager, you can update your keyboard and mouse drivers or at least check if any new ones are available from Microsoft.

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Thanks for replying, Carl - You're always so willing to help, and it's appreciated.

I anticipated the idea of changing batteries, since it's what I did the last time this came up. And now I've checked on my keyboard and mouse drivers, they're up to date.

PD9 has been much better for me since the recent update. I can scrub in the time line without the program hesitating for long periods, and everything seems snappier and smoother.

It's just this odd recurring text problem that usually comes up when I start working with the menu. It's the only consistent problem I'm having.

The reason I posted this thread, and boosted it again, is in case this glitch happens for any other users also. It would indicate something worthwhile for the developers to investigate.

I use some other CPU intensive programs, composing music in Sonar, editing sound in Sound Forge, working with video in those programs also. My new computer was put together specifically to handle those intensive tasks as well as possible. --I don't think it's an accurate observation that users of PD9 are just going to have more problems than with other programs simply because it's so demanding. That can't excuse glitches/bugs that may actually be in the program.

My computer guy who built this machine, is concerned about PD9 using 100% of my CPU. He's never heard of a program that does that, and feels there could be some problematic and insufficient programming involved. He's not happy that when I burn a project, I go up to 100% on CPU usage - it's not the healthiest thing for a computer to be pushed up to that for hours at a time. I hope he's wrong about this dramatically shortening my computer's life.

So--Anyway. At least I know how to solve this occasional text problem - shut down, re-boot. I'd be curious if others ever have this come up.

RB

hi.
bowser;

My computer guy who built this machine, is concerned about PD9 using 100% of my CPU. He's never heard of a program that does that, and feels there could be some problematic and insufficient programming involved. He's not happy that when I burn a project, I go up to 100% on CPU usage - it's not the healthiest thing for a computer to be pushed up to that for hours at a time. I hope he's wrong about this dramatically shortening my computer's life.

If you search for cpu, you will find many posts regarding the use of cpu.
For the longest time, I could not render mp4's longer than 20-30 sec before warningsigns showed up.
PD was not using several cores(threads) - only 1.
Finally, on my system, build 2930 seems to have solved that.

(I think this is "off topic" now, and likely to be deleted)

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Quote: hi.
bowser;

My computer guy who built this machine, is concerned about PD9 using 100% of my CPU. He's never heard of a program that does that, and feels there could be some problematic and insufficient programming involved. He's not happy that when I burn a project, I go up to 100% on CPU usage - it's not the healthiest thing for a computer to be pushed up to that for hours at a time. I hope he's wrong about this dramatically shortening my computer's life.

If you search for cpu, you will find many posts regarding the use of cpu.
For the longest time, I could not render mp4's longer than 20-30 sec before warningsigns showed up.
PD was not using several cores(threads) - only 1.
Finally, on my system, build 2930 seems to have solved that.

(I think this is "off topic" now, and likely to be deleted)

Hi, Nina - This current build does seem much better. I've looked at my meters to make sure, and PD9 is definitely using all 6 of my cores, so that's great.

What's off topic--?-- You mean the whole thread, or your response? Seems like they're both right on, even if my occasional menu text problem is unique to me,--but I doubt if it is unique. Don't know until other people check in on it!

RB

If you are using wireless mouse and keyboard and have a wireless access station too close to gether, you may be getting interference. The newer band hopping G or H band units are close in frequency to some mouse units (mine was logitech) had to switch to wired mouse and keyboard. Solved bunch of typos in word as well as several other programs.

My guess was that the mouse or keyboard had to resend the data, the harder working programs seem to get the message packets out of sequence.

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I would agree with much of what Rocket-Scientist said.

I am not a fan of wireless keyboards, I prefer wired keyboards. But I do like and use wireless mouse with no problem.

The Keyboard on this computer is a USB wired Keyboard.
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Thanks for good input, Carl and Rocket, appreciate it.

RB