I am quite heavy into the popup help, forever hovering my mouse over things to see what they are being a new user learning in my free time.

having been working through many tutorials that use expressions and built in functions, I can hover my mouse over names in the parameter window and a black box popup appears telling me what it is.

I have watched a few tutorials where typing a function into a parameter shows the help popup with the function name and its required parameters. for example “prim” as shown in the attached image.(snapped from a video tutorial)

https://www.sidefx.com/files/popuphelp_847.jpg [sidefx.com]

This help popup does not show for me, I tried the edit menu “tooltip help” and under scipting in preferences “context sensitive popup help” which didn't work, maybe its a graphics driver issue as I use 3 monitors on windows 7 with the parameter window torn off?

I have also noticed sometimes while typing an expression the cursor will hang and stop me typing like its paused trying to do something and releases after a few seconds.

I'm using the latest free version of houdini 14

Thank you for your help.

Edit > Preferences > Scripting
turn on “Context Sensitive Popup Help”

Appreciate the quick reply but as I said, I have already tried that and for some reason it does not work for us with this current version of Houdini 14.

also assuming this never got fixed, I've emailed SES and have a ticket out for this but its the ONLY ticket to never have a solution or response posted back at all. Is there any update from anyone about this (what i assume is a) bug?

Logged this as a bug a couple of days ago. SESI responded saying they are trying to fix…

https://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=37444 [sidefx.com]

Please, I have the same problem. Has anybody found a solution? I am running the latest build 15.5 on windows 8.1

I am having the same issue on 15.5.480 Indie, but it pops up for a millisecond, then disappears.

480 is super old, have you tried a more recent version?

18.0416, no pop-up help.

Pop-up help is working in 18

jsmack
Pop-up help is working in 18

Yes, somehow I got it working, cant remember how :-) thanks

itaibachar

jsmack
Pop-up help is working in 18

Yes, somehow I got it working, cant remember how :-) thanks

Ghosts!