I installed new video card drivers yesterday and now when I start OpenSCAD in displays the initial open recent files window, not matter what option I choose New or Open Recent, Open Example, etc, the window goes away and OpenSCAD never starts and there is no process running and no error message of any kind. This happens on all versions of OpenSCAD even the 3 older versions you posted. So I am guessing there is something screwy with my system. Not sure how to proceed from here. Maybe I can try doing a system restore in Windows and rolling back installed updates. On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Marius Kintel <marius@kintel.net> wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2015, at 16:35 PM, Trevor Orr <fractorr@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > […] and now I can't get it to even display my test file. Now when I > click Help -> Library Info it crashes OpenSCAD. > > > Ouch, that doesn’t sound good. > To check if this could be a problem with a 3rd party library we’re using, > it would be helpful if you’d be willing to test the previous few versions > of OpenSCAD on your computer and see if you get any different behavior. > Testing both 32-bit and 64-bit version might also reveal some differences. > > Here are links to the previous releases of OpenSCAD: > > 64-bit: > http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2015.03-1-x86-64.zip > http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2015.03-x86-64.zip > http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2014.03-x86-64.zip > > 32-bit: > http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2015.03-2-x86-32.zip > http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2015.03-1-x86-32.zip > http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2015.03-x86-32.zip > http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2014.03-x86-32.zip > > -Marius > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >

Actually the oldest version posted (OpenSCAD-2014.03-x86-64.zip <http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2014.03-x86-64.zip>) did run but failed to compile my library but it does work correctly with the examples. On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Trevor Orr <fractorr@gmail.com> wrote: > I installed new video card drivers yesterday and now when I start OpenSCAD > in displays the initial open recent files window, not matter what option I > choose New or Open Recent, Open Example, etc, the window goes away and > OpenSCAD never starts and there is no process running and no error message > of any kind. This happens on all versions of OpenSCAD even the 3 older > versions you posted. So I am guessing there is something screwy with my > system. Not sure how to proceed from here. Maybe I can try doing a system > restore in Windows and rolling back installed updates. > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Marius Kintel <marius@kintel.net> wrote: > >> > On Dec 9, 2015, at 16:35 PM, Trevor Orr <fractorr@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > […] and now I can't get it to even display my test file. Now when I >> click Help -> Library Info it crashes OpenSCAD. >> > >> Ouch, that doesn’t sound good. >> To check if this could be a problem with a 3rd party library we’re using, >> it would be helpful if you’d be willing to test the previous few versions >> of OpenSCAD on your computer and see if you get any different behavior. >> Testing both 32-bit and 64-bit version might also reveal some differences. >> >> Here are links to the previous releases of OpenSCAD: >> >> 64-bit: >> http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2015.03-1-x86-64.zip >> http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2015.03-x86-64.zip >> http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2014.03-x86-64.zip >> >> 32-bit: >> http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2015.03-2-x86-32.zip >> http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2015.03-1-x86-32.zip >> http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2015.03-x86-32.zip >> http://files.openscad.org/OpenSCAD-2014.03-x86-32.zip >> >> -Marius >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenSCAD mailing list >> Discuss@lists.openscad.org >> http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >> > >

Another diagnostics idea: Test MeshLab: http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ MeshLab is well known and use the same GUI framework as OpenSCAD. If that also fails, we’ve isolated the problem quite a bit. -Marius

MeshLab seem to run fine. On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Marius Kintel <marius@kintel.net> wrote: > Another diagnostics idea: > Test MeshLab: http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/ > > MeshLab is well known and use the same GUI framework as OpenSCAD. > If that also fails, we’ve isolated the problem quite a bit. > > -Marius > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >

> On Dec 10, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Trevor Orr <fractorr@gmail.com> wrote: > > Actually the oldest version posted (OpenSCAD-2014.03-x86-64.zip) did run but failed to compile my library but it does work correctly with the examples. > Thanks. That, together with the fact that MeshLab works, points towards that this has something to do with us upgrading from Qt4 to Qt5. Does anyone know about any other Qt5-based 3D software we could test against? -Marius

Just FYI, I got OpenSCAD to work again. Here is what I did. 1) Uninstalled OpenSCAD 2) Remove EVERY reference to OpenSCAD in the Windows Registry 3) Installed latest version OpenSCAD It now seems to be working fine. -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Stuck-in-Thrown-Together-view-tp15032p15357.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

ahh that pesky windows registry. what a pain that was, and is. glad I got rid of all but 1 windows machine, to run some of my ham radio stuff. -- Extra Ham Operator: K7AZJ Registered Linux User: 275424 Raspberry Pi and Arduino developer *The most exciting phrase to hear in science - the one that heralds new discoveries - is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny...".*- Isaac. Asimov *I* *f you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime. *- Anonymous *If writing good code requires very little comments, then writing really excellent code requires no comments at all!*- Ken Thompson On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 2:54 PM, fractorr <fractorr@gmail.com> wrote: > Just FYI, I got OpenSCAD to work again. Here is what I did. > > 1) Uninstalled OpenSCAD > 2) Remove EVERY reference to OpenSCAD in the Windows Registry > 3) Installed latest version OpenSCAD > > It now seems to be working fine. > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.openscad.org/Stuck-in-Thrown-Together-view-tp15032p15357.html > Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org >

Just FYI, I was able to replicate this problem and fortunately my solution worked again. This time I was doing a batch conversion from a directory of a bunch scad files and exporting them to stl files. Half way through I realized there was an issue with my scad files and I aborted the command line batch script. Doing this made it so that OpenSCAD would start but not actually open any files, it would just get the intro window of recent files and when I would selected any option it would go away and OpenSCAD would never actually start. So this earlier solution I posted worked again fortunately. 1) Uninstalled OpenSCAD 2) Remove EVERY reference to OpenSCAD in the Windows Registry 3) Installed latest version OpenSCAD -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Stuck-in-Thrown-Together-view-tp15032p15376.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.