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No text in dialog boxes

Postby lonewolf » Sun Mar 06, 2016 8:57 pm

Hello all!!! Well I have an issue with dialog boxes?? I get a box but no text... I have google it and followed recomended step to no avail?? I went thru the windows options (maybe I missed the correct one?) Am not sure what to do I have a feeling its a windows issue but not sure Any help is greatly appreciated!! I looked for a topic for sound and found none so will post this issue also...I have audio but can barely hear a voice in back ground tower...??? not loud enough to make out but know its there??? Oh and no hud changed all settings?? not sure what Im missing here

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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby lonewolf » Mon Mar 14, 2016 12:58 pm

Well I did some more digging into the dialog box issue....I opened several programs heavy with dialog boxes and they all seemed to work fine so I am leaning towords a flightgear issue and no clue what to do to fix???
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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby lonewolf » Tue Mar 15, 2016 5:04 pm

Am I looking for help in the wrong place???
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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby Thorsten » Tue Mar 15, 2016 5:07 pm

No but it seems you're expecting magic. We can't diagnose issues based on a vague description, which is the reason why there's a whole box of information that's required for a bug report above the window you type in.

There's an issue which vaguely fits your description for AMD/Radeon GPU architectures - you can search the forum for that if that's applicable.
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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby dg-505 » Tue Mar 15, 2016 5:17 pm

@lonewolf: Can you tell, which dialog window has no text?
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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby wkitty42 » Tue Mar 15, 2016 6:42 pm

one of the OP's other posts reported a win10 upgrade dialogue that was empty, too... that's so far outside of FG that it strikes me as a system OS problem and not anything that we can help with... system corruption, malware infestation, etc... personally speaking, if i were to still be running any winwhatever mess, i'd start with a completely new installation of the OS...
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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby Johan G » Tue Mar 15, 2016 6:49 pm

The strangest thing I ever saw on a windows box (running NT 4.x) was that either a service pack or individual programs had to be reinstalled after the other one. Otherwise you would not be able to close them by any means other than Ctrl-F4 Alt+F4. The "Close" option in a windows top left icon drop-down menu (or whatever it was called), as well as the [x] icon in the top right of a window were both gone. :roll: :lol:

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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby SHM » Tue Mar 15, 2016 7:03 pm

If you've an ATI radeon video card, the text in the dialog boxes flicker and sometimes you may not be able to see them. Try clicking debug->cycle gui

With regard to the sound why not try going to sound configuration and increasing the volume there or maybe even try the volume mixer in windows.

@Johan don't you mean Alt+F4 :wink:

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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby Johan G » Tue Mar 15, 2016 7:58 pm

SHM wrote in Tue Mar 15, 2016 7:03 pm:don't you mean Alt+F4 :wink:

Oops. Yes, Alt+F4. :wink:
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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby Hooray » Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:55 pm

plib gui styles probably - i.e. just change your GUI style to the legacy style and see if that works or not.
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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby dg-505 » Wed Mar 16, 2016 10:39 am

I've got another suspicion, but considering that I need to know if only the Terrasync dialog window is incolved.
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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby lonewolf » Wed Mar 16, 2016 1:04 pm

Ok some more info... The boxes show up when I scroll over them and dispapear when I move the mouse away... Its is for all the ill say onscreen in cockpit hotspots. The options menus boxes work fine. Thank you for the sound advice I will try that.

I am sorry I am not reader of code and will try my best to learn and work with the powers that be! Thank you all for the comments

If there is any more info that will help I will be happy to post it..
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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby lonewolf » Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:46 pm

BTW I have this installed on my work pc running win 8 and the dialog boxes work fine there... not sure what you mean by tera sync dialog?? I am not sure I saw a dialog box???what would I be looking for in regards to terasync and dialog boxes???

Thank you all for dealing with me..I really do appreciate the efforts you have all put in helping me get going!!!
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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby Hooray » Wed Mar 16, 2016 7:48 pm

you could post a screenshot
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Re: No text in dialog boxes

Postby lonewolf » Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:29 am

Well tried a screenshot using snipping tool but that didnt work have to move mouse to activate snip hence moving mouse off the dialog hotspot ... then tried prtscn button nothing happened? Learn me how to do this and i shall thank you all!! In short I hover and a white semi opaque box shows nothing in box
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