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Title: Dot or comma in Max 2017?
Post by: maru on 2016-06-08, 17:31:59
Hi, I need help. :)

My Max 2017 is behaving strange. My UI uses commas ( , ) but I need to type dots ( . ) if I want to change any value.

Here is an example:

Displayed in Max UI: 0,1
I want to change this to 0,2 so I type: 0,2 and press enter/tab - but then Max reverts it to 0,1 as if the value was incorrect.
Ok... so I type 0.2 - and voila.... it accepts the value and changes to 0,2 - yes, with a comma!

Anyone else experienced something similar? It's not Corona-related. Happens everywhere. I also checked region and language settings in Windows but it's fine (comma is used as decimal symbol).

Title: Re: Dot or comma in Max 2017?
Post by: Frood on 2016-06-08, 18:08:30
Anyone else experienced something similar?

We had this periodically for years (omitted Max2013+15) until the shift to Max 2016 - no problem with this right now. And it was almost every time the fist max session after login we started. Following sessions worked as usual. But even then out of the middle of nowhere dot and comma changed. Switching windows standard language to English and back (to German) didnĀ“t helped.

If we meet this again with Max2017 (in a year or so, after SP3 ;) I go crazy.

Good Luck

Title: Re: Dot or comma in Max 2017?
Post by: cecofuli on 2016-06-08, 18:19:32
I had this behavior:

Everything was ok. I use the "point" in the right, small pad of the keyboard and 3ds Max writes "."
But, sometime, without any good reason, when I pressed the "point" key, 3ds Max wrote ","!!!

But, I discovered that I had two Italian keyboard:

(*) Itaiano
(*) Italiano (142)

With Italian 142 overthink is wrong.
So, check your Windows setting.
Title: Re: Dot or comma in Max 2017?
Post by: Ondra on 2016-06-08, 18:27:16
can you check if it happens also when you uninstall Corona? 3dsmax 2017 started doing some really... unpleasant stuff regarding the system locale. It seems wxWidgets cannot deal with that. I just forced it back, and so far it seemed it worked. So this one could be in theory caused by Corona
Title: Re: Dot or comma in Max 2017?
Post by: pokoy on 2016-06-08, 18:56:57
Same for me, can't use 2017 at all. It's a general 2017 problem from what it seems as the entire has been 'upgraded', it's being investigated as far as I know. Fingers crossed it's not going to take long.
Title: Re: Dot or comma in Max 2017?
Post by: pokoy on 2016-06-08, 19:08:31
I forgot to mention this, anyone affected by this should really submit a defect through the bug submission form in Max. It really helps to get this up on the bug list. It's a showstopper for those who are affected and needs to be communicated.
Title: Re: Dot or comma in Max 2017?
Post by: maru on 2016-06-09, 15:42:24
can you check if it happens also when you uninstall Corona? 3dsmax 2017 started doing some really... unpleasant stuff regarding the system locale. It seems wxWidgets cannot deal with that. I just forced it back, and so far it seemed it worked. So this one could be in theory caused by Corona
Yup, problem disappears after uninstalling Corona. :/
Title: Re: Dot or comma in Max 2017?
Post by: pokoy on 2016-06-09, 16:21:17
I'm puzzled to see that a plugin can mess up the entire UI in Max... Thanks for the info Maru, will have to test tomorrow and let you know.
Title: Re: Dot or comma in Max 2017?
Post by: pokoy on 2016-06-10, 12:53:00
Maru, thanks for testing this, it's indeed a problem with Corona in Max 2017.
I just posted a more detailed thread in the bug report section:
https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,12283.0.html (https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,12283.0.html)

We need a fix for this asap!
Title: Re: Dot or comma in Max 2017?
Post by: darstellungsart. on 2016-07-16, 18:49:48
Should be definately a hotfix. It was pure coincidence that i found this thread.....i thought it it's autodesks fault :)