Interacting with properties panel can make app require force close
MacOS 10.14.1
Illustrator 23.0.1
Clicking on options in the 'Properties' palette, then clicking outside the resulting dialog can make the app become mostly unusable:
- Menus are greyed out
- any menu function can't be done, including save and quit
David
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Hi David,
This happens, when you open some menu while a panel pop-up is still open. Since you had the fill popup open from properties panel, when you clicked on menu, so its grayed out.
You need to close the popup first to open the menu.
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David, when I try this today, it doesn’t crash anything, so the issues is resolved — if it doesn’t crash for you as well, please check.
However, any click outside of the opened popup panel closes it first and doesn’t click anything it hit, including top menu. So the top menu just doesn’t unfurl.
This is a common behavior for all non-OS popup menus, and I hate it.So this happens for:
— Properties popups and dropdowns
— Control popups dropdowns (Global Edit Options, Color UI, etc.)This doesn’t happen for:
— Panels’ flyout menus (hamburger icon)
— Dropdown bottom buttons in other panels (like 'fx' in Appearance, Libraries in Swatches and Brushes panels, etc.) — these are handled by OS.Why Ai decided it should break the current OS standards (I speak about Windows ones) — a mystery.
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David
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I just noticed that you have audaciously marked this issue as "resolved". It very much is not. If you would like me to take you though it in detail, I would be happy to.
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David
commented
That feels like a bad solution. The popup auto closes, and can't be reopened to reset AI. The only remedy to this issue is force restarting AI, losing all progress.
