AlVista wrote:

I am getting frustrated; the last two revisions have installed but when APP appears on the screen, the buttons and menu headers blink when the mouse pointer passes over them, but don't respond to clicks. Oddly, this happens on one of my machines but not the other, both running 32-bit XP! Anybody else have this?

No problem here with APG 2.0.7 and 2.0.8 on Windows XP 32-bit with SP3.

Last edited by mediavets (2010-05-29 00:42:47)

[bo] wrote:

Two PCs here - W7 x64 and XP x86 - both working spiffy!

Graphic drivers problems?

Maybe? How would I know? No other program behaves like this, Photoshop CS3 runs fine, etc etc. This behaviour is unique to APP!

Yes, the PC is running XP Pro SP3, 2Gb RAM, Pentium 4 3.2 GHz. Have a look at
http://www.autopano.net/forum/t8963-2.0 … 2.04-again
because Bill Seifert has the same problem - in fact, just as he found I have also found, that if you shrink the window smaller the buttons will work. It's very strange, but now two of us have it!

Do you have also this behavior with the 2.5 alpha version ?

AlVista wrote:

AlexandreJ wrote:

Do you have also this behavior with the 2.5 alpha version ?

I don't have 2.0.5, but I do have a copy of 2.0.6 32-bit, which I installed on the 64-bit W7 machine. I can report that 2.0.6 (32) does not show the problem, and 2.0.9 (64) does show the problem (I tried it again just to be sure).

Err.. Alexandre is referring to 2.5.0 Alpha 1 and not 2.0.5.

You can find 2.5.0 Alpha 1 here:
http://www.autopano.net/forum/p65358-20 … -41#p65358

Issue opened : 82
We contacted Nokia for Qt support on this one.

OK, trial carried out as requested. The problem is still there with the new DLLs. This time I tried it many more times, and find that the behaviour is not entirely consistent. The window initially opens at medium size - buttons fail; reduce in several steps - buttons fail each time until window very small, and then the buttons and menus work. Increase the size in steps and the buttons go on working, even when the window is larger than it started. Maximise to full screen - buttons fail. reduce size again - buttons fail until window is very small. There is a lot of hysteresis!

Hi,

I'm very new to Autopano; I've not even bought it, just downloaded the trial version. But my beginnings with the program weren't convincing at all, because I got that very bug of the buttons not working.

I'm running a Sonny Desktop with a dual chore 3.2 Mhz and have 4meg of ram. The OS is window XP SP3 (the last updates have all been achieved).

First I begun to download the new Alpha version. When I run into the problem of the not working buttons I thought it was a bug due to the alpha version. I uninstalled it and then installed the standard actual trial version, but I encountered the same behavior and  got very very frustrated. At first I thought that my computer may not have sufficient performances to run Autopano, I resized my pictures to 1/4th of their size, without success, encountering the same behaviour again and again.

So I checked the performances of my computer and noticed that a lot of memory was left and the processor wasn't working at all. After a while it was clear that the  problem was not with the performances of my computer, but with the buttons : the pointing device was able to highlight them, but not to activate them. This problem is made worse by the fact that many actions aren't available through the menu.

Frankly, such a huge bug would prevent anyone from buying this software. I still thought that perhaps something may be weird with my computer, but came here and saw that many other users had the same issue. I have exactly the same problem described concerning the pointing device : it can move around normally, highlight the buttons, but it cannot activate any operation, which is an extremely frustrating experience.  The remark that diminishing the size of the window can allow the button activation helped a little (thanks to the person who posted it).

I'm writing this despite my very little experience with Autopano because I have found the cause of my problems : some months ago, I had switched to the use of a Wacom tablet. The tablet which is connected through the USB port, can support both a pen and a mouse. I use it since several months now and didn't encounter any problem with any other program, be it Photoshop CS2, C1 of Phase One, my cataloguing software, Open Office or the usual Window programs . However using a mouse on a tablet is kind of a special environment, so just to see, I switched back to the usual ps mouse and wow.. now the buttons works and I do really appreciate Autopano. I will continue to work with the trial version and will probably get the new 2.5 version when it comes out.

So for those other persons having problems with the buttons, it may be interesting to know what kind of pointing devices they are using ?  through which ports ?

And for the developpers they should check the interface of Autopano with the Wacom tablet, whether it is used with the usual pen or the mouse coming along with some models. If that serves, I can look for the model of tablet I was using and may be that an update of the driver will do it (I have not yet looked for any new updates, there is probably one).

Last edited by Tourbillon_cris (2010-08-28 10:32:41)

As a Google search for QT and Wacom shows, this is a well-known issue (QT is the piece of software Autopano uses to follow mouse or tablet actions.)

What !! ? people knew where the problem came from and the way to workaround it but they let this thread unanswered

Last edited by Tourbillon_cris (2010-08-28 17:16:55)

I found something weird about the Wacom tablet and APP

Everything works fine on Vista when I use the stylus "as a pen" but when I used the stylus "as a mouse" (clicked on the tablet ) I got a really weird behavior ......  (The mouse is on a menu but nothing happen when I click on it ....) FYI:  I don't have a Wacom mouse to really test :-(

So I'm guessing on XP it's the same thing ......

I'm going to report to QT .....

Stay tuned