[chimerax-users] Drag select blanks view window

[Elaine Meng]

Oh sorry, I didn't notice the mention of my name until now!

I don't have this problem using drag-to-select in the ChimeraX 1.4 release on my 2021 M1 MacBook Pro with MacOS 12.5.  I didn't notice the problem back when I was running 12.4 either, but then again, I rarely use drag-to-select.

I tried both drag-selecting where the rectangle had something in it, resulting in a selection, and drag-select empty rectangle, resulting in no selection.  Neither one blacked out the graphics window. Before releasing the click, I do see that the parts of the rectangle that are crossing ribbon or a map surface are magenta, while the rest of the rectangle is green.  When I release the click, the selection or lack thereof are as they are supposed to be, however.

This failure to update the graphics window occasionally after actions involving selection and/or silhouette outlines sounds like problems I did observe on my older laptop, 2015 Intel Mac, but I haven't seen it using this newer system.

If you need me to try anything else or send info, let me know...
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Aug 8, 2022, at 4:38 PM, Tom Goddard via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
>  On my 2022 M1 MacBook Pro with macOS 12.5 drag select on an atomic model shown as ribbon works correctly, never blacks out.  It sounds like a graphics driver bug.  I have been amazed that I have not seen any graphics driver bugs on Mac M1, nor have I seen any crashes, in the 1.5 years they have been out, while Intel Mac graphics drivers crashes often -- we get crash reports every week.
> 
>  You could use ChimeraX menu Help / Report a Bug so we get your exact system info.  But I'm not sure we are going to be able to do anything about that.  Maybe try updating to macOS 12.5 -- I doubt that will fix it, since I did not have your problem on macOS 12.4.
> 
>  You could also try the native M1 ChimeraX technology preview build at the bottom of the ChimeraX download page.
> 
>  Elaine in our lab has an older 2021 M1 MacBook Pro and I'll ask her to try drag select to look at if the structure disappears.
> 
> 	Tom
> 
> 
>> On Aug 8, 2022, at 3:17 PM, Daniel Asarnow via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> In ChimeraX 1.3 and now 1.4 releases, I have an issue where control-click dragging to select causes the 3D viewer frame to black out. Everything else functions normally, including the select itself, although it is very difficult to use since the structure can't be seen. The select box *is* visible, but it's magenta instead of green. Afterwards things go back to normal if something was box selected, but if nothing was boxed then the 3D viewer remains blacked out until an interaction like moving the models/camera takes place.
>> 
>> I'm on a 2021 M1 MacBook Pro with macOS 12.4. I was wondering if others have experienced this and if it's an M1 issue as this is the only machine I've seen exhibit the problem.
>> 
>> Best,
>> -da
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