thanks darren & harry ! i went to another box, no issue with moving
went back to first machine turned off alpha blending and that did do the trick (fixed problem) so the question is, what if anything will be lost by not using alpha blending? turned alpha blend back on and changed color depth to 32 bit, retstarted AD and that also worked but moving the component was so slow as to be useless card is G450 2 head BTW, the G450 allows 16/24/32 bit depth on screen 1 but only 16/32 on screen 2, or maybe that has to do with the monitor types ?, 1 CRT, 1 LCD, both 21's another note the program sure is poky and jerky while moving the component and my first practice board only has 4 components! it feels like some huge grid, but the snap grid is at 25mils the box w/ the G450 is not too old, 2Ghz, and it does have 512K ram (it had 1G ram but we pulled out one stick about 1 year ago which solved a lot of crashing issues, interestingly replacing the second stick didn't help that either, maybe that is a mobo issue) ds _______________________________________________________________________ Integrated Controls, Inc. Tel: 415-647-0480 EXT 107 2851 21st Street Fax: 415-647-3003 San Francisco, CA 94110 www.integratedcontrolsinc.com Harry Selfridge wrote: > AD6 uses Alpha Blending for graphics transparency. One possible > source of your problem could be that your graphics card can't process > Alpha Blending. > > Try turning it off in Preferences>PCB Editor>Display. > > -Harry > > > At 12:51 PM 1/16/2006, you wrote: > > >>Hi >>i know this has been asked and answered but i couldn't find it >> >>just getting starting with AD6, makes me feel quite dumb again >> >>when i move a component it disappears under the cursor until it is >>plopped down >> >>how do you see the component while moving it ? >> >>i messed w/ the 3 mask level sliders to no effect >> >>as far as i know all the color settings etc are all default >> >>thanks! >> >>Dennis Saputelli >>SNIP > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
