Invisible Text With Windows 8.1
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Well, -effectively- invisible, in the 'measurements' window at lower right.
Running Sketchup 8 using any of the schemes that shipped with Windows 8.1, I wind up with yellow text against a white background, which is basically illegible.
The 'Styles' menu does not appear to offer any settings to control the window background and text colors. Changing setting in Windows does not change what's displaying in SU, either.
Has anyone else encountered this problem with 8.1, and found a fix so as to make that text black-on-white (or any other legible color combination)?
thanks!
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the input box goes yellow to signal it is ready for accepting numeric values or modifiers
Is numlock toggled on?
Because i run 8.1 and the text is black
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(1) The Text box starts out solid black
(2) Select and move an object (for example) and the box turns solid white (possibly white text on a white field but it's impossible to tell)
(3) When I begin to type in numbers the box turns yellow (and looking -very- closely it's just possible to make out white numerals against that yellow background).
numlock does not affect this one way or the other.
Rich, what color scheme are you using, under 8.1? Maybe I should try and see if setting the same scheme on my machine gets me the display colors I need.
thanks!
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Just the default windows solid color
I turn off all the fluff like transparency etc...
But setting it to any of the preset themes doesn't change the input box in SketchUp
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Yeah, no matter what theme I set, I still have the identical problem: white-on-white (or invisible) numbers to start, and barely-visible/unreadable white-on-yellow numerals when I type anything in. So I suppose that it's a sketchup rather than Windows 8.1 thing. Though I never saw this using SU under XP, and it sounds as though you have not seen this problem under 8.1...
...are you using sketchup 8 trouble-free under 8.1? Your info says 2014, perhaps that's what makes the difference.
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I've 8 pro and 2013.
All are fine.
First report I've seen.
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...aaaaand as of turning the machine on this morning, the problem has resolved itself. White box, black text, all is well. No apparent connection to any intervention, on my part.
I'll take it.
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