topic Re: Strange display behaviour in AutoCAD Forum

Strange display behaviour

peterm — Thu, 27 May 2021 09:44:30 GMT

This odd behaviour has just started since I got a new larger monitor.

At the bottom of the screen there is a two line space, indicated by the red arrows.

When I finish a command and press enter, the two line space briefly changes to one line and then back to two.

This causes the main workspace to flicker as it resizes which is very annoying.

Any ideas what may be causing this?

Re: Strange display behaviour

user181 — Thu, 27 May 2021 12:25:10 GMT

If you right click on the model or any paper tab and select the "Dock inline with status bar" option does it fix the problem?

Re: Strange display behaviour

peterm — Thu, 27 May 2021 12:35:35 GMT

That sounded like a good solution.

However, when I do that, it does go down to one line, but as soon as I click in the drawing area, it reverts back to two lines.

Re: Strange display behaviour

peterm — Thu, 27 May 2021 12:38:19 GMT

I wonder if the problem has anything to do with the fact that my new monitor is 4K.

Re: Strange display behaviour

marianne.franken — Thu, 27 May 2021 20:11:37 GMT

same problem overhere, I have not found a definite solution yet but I manage it (for now) with:

options-display- layout elements -

then turn off : display layout and model tabs.

Re: Strange display behaviour

marianne.franken — Thu, 27 May 2021 20:38:11 GMT

I just found 'the problem maker'

If you turn OFF dynamic Input and Infer Constraints (this because they are both the trigger) you will experience a silent screen 😀

Re: Strange display behaviour

pendean — Thu, 27 May 2021 21:52:26 GMT

Nice tip.

Re: Strange display behaviour

marianne.franken — Fri, 28 May 2021 07:03:39 GMT

i meant not only turn it off but also not showing in the statusbar (? i do not know for sure if that is the right name)

Re: Strange display behaviour

peterm — Fri, 28 May 2021 09:15:10 GMT

Well, not sure what happened.

I turned off the model and layout tabs yesterday and continued to work.

This morning I launched AutoCAD, opened up a template and turned on the model and layout tabs to test Marianne's theory.

For some strange reason the tabs are now in line with the status bar and the problem has gone away.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'll let you know if it starts happening again.

Re: Strange display behaviour

peterm — Fri, 28 May 2021 09:43:12 GMT

Looks like I spoke too soon. It's back.

I already have Dynamic Input and Infer Constraints turned off and not showing.

I'll try and find a bit of time to experiment with what makes it come and go.

Re: Strange display behaviour

Alfred.NESWADBA — Fri, 28 May 2021 10:44:10 GMT

Hi,

what happens if you set STATUSBARAUTOWRAP to OFF?

- alfred -

Re: Strange display behaviour

peterm — Fri, 28 May 2021 11:10:01 GMT

Hi Alfred,

That seems to have done the trick. Thank you.

That's a bit of an obscure setting. Where did you come across it?

Re: Strange display behaviour

Alfred.NESWADBA — Fri, 28 May 2021 12:37:14 GMT

Hi,

>> That's a bit of an obscure setting. Where did you come across it?

With the growing status bar there was an issue that the screen started blinking ... everytime when the status bar splitted from one row to two rows, then back to one and so on (continuous).

Then Autodesk introduced this flag (as hidden system variable) which blocked the splitting.

(you'll find more if you search this forum for this system variable if you want to know more about the history)

- alfred -

Re: Strange display behaviour

peterm — Fri, 28 May 2021 13:08:31 GMT

I wonder why it was behaving like that when, in my case, there is clearly no conflict between the layout tabs and the status bar.

Re: Strange display behaviour

Alfred.NESWADBA — Fri, 28 May 2021 13:48:13 GMT

Hi,

>> in my case, there is clearly no conflict between the layout

>> tabs and the status bar.

Maybe new issue with high resolution displays. But I don't know that, sorry.

- alfred -

Re: Strange display behaviour

Pointdump — Fri, 28 May 2021 17:01:06 GMT

Alfred,
Well that's a new one! It's not in System Variables, it doesn't auto-complete in the command line, and it doesn't use a (1) or (0) for on or off.
Thanks for today's learning moment.
Dave