buggy surface selection

[foofoo]

Hello,

surface selection in the 3d window seems to be buggy
on my system (AC3D 4.0c, Redhat 9, XFree 4.3, ATI 8500).

Using CTRL+left mouse button selects surfaces that
are not related to the mouse pointer position.

Also, the selection is fixed regardless where I click
in the 3d window.

Is there any other way to select surfaces that are not
shown in the orthographic views?

Any suggestions/work arounds? Thanks.

/Michael

[Andy]

Strange one. Something is wrong somewhere.

Do you get a dotted box in the 3d window if you control+left-drag?

Try pressing space twice (to max.min the 3d window) - see if that makes a difference.

It could be that you need a more recent linux graphics driver.

Andy

[foofoo]

> Do you get a dotted box in the 3d window if you control+left-drag?

Yes, but when I release the button the entire model is
always selected.

Doing the same in the ortho views works correctly.

> Try pressing space twice (to max.min the 3d window) > see if that makes a difference.

No difference.

> It could be that you need a more recent linux graphics > driver.

Isn't that doubtful because surface picking works correctly in the ortho views?

I just checked: my version is 4.0c. Is that the latest?

[Andy]

4.0f will be out soon. This fixes a probem with triangulation on Linux.

One of the major problems with some graphics drivers is their inabilty to handle multiple OpenGL contexts which AC3D uses. Max/mining the window sometimes fixes this.

If you switch to vertex mode - can you select vertices in the 3d window?

Has anyone else got this problem (under Linux)?

Andy

[foofoo]

Perhaps 4.0e already fixes this problem?

> If you switch to vertex mode - can you select vertices in > the 3d window?

Selecting vertices produces similar results: arbitrary vertex selected and selection does not change when
I try it once more clicking somewhere else.

[foofoo]

Alright, I saved the test model, quit the program, and
started it again, and loaded the model. Now selection in
the 3d window worked. Strange.

Anyway, thanks for the quick response.