I am sorry if this has been addressed already - I haven't been able to find an answer.

When I press the tab key with the mouse focus in the network pane, the menu keeps flickering on and off and won't allow a click on any of the tab menu options. The only way to stop it is to shut down Houdini and restart the machine. After Houdini is closed, and before I restart, the taskbar “Windows icon” and any selected icon on my desktop flickers in the same way. Anyone have a clue what that is about?

This happens repeatedly - I have open a fairly simple file with a revolved NURBs curve to form a “fishbowl' with the default glass shader and two ”walls" which are two cube primitives with the default brick shader. No animations or dynamics of any kind.


My rig:

Houdini Master Version 9.5.155 on a Windows Vista 32bit Ultimate SP1 machine. Intel Core Duo CPU T8100 @ 2.10 GHz. 2 GB RAM. NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT

Hey ,
You really need to upgrade from 9.5.155 The version you are using is very old. Even I dare say an old beta.
Go to support > Download . Get yourself a new and shiny daily build for vista !

Rob

Sometimes it happened to me too, when I had a pane minimized (by clicking the small arrow on the pane split line). After I un-minimized the respective pane, the problem dissapeared. I think it qualifies as a bug.

Dragos

Thank you. I hope I didn't pay for a beta, but I'll upgrade as you suggest.

zen

They are continuously fixing bugs and adding small improvements to the full production build. You don't have to wait forever for a point release this way.

It'll benefit you to check out the Journal periodically and keep somewhat up-to-date with your builds:
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_journal&Itemid=213&page=index&journal=default [sidefx.com]

Good luck,
Jason