Currently there are issues with Rhino version 4 on Windows Vista (including Vista Home, Vista Premium and Vista Ultimate) and the Wacom tablet driver.

• When the tablet driver is not installed on a Vista box with the standard system mouse, one can left click and hold on a tool button to bring up the extended tools or go up to the pull down menus get cascading text menus.
• After the tablet driver is installed, left clicking and holding will no longer bring up the extended tools or menus. But the tablet tip will work if you touch the tool box with the tip of the pen and hold.

There are two that will allow the flyout toolbars and menus in Rhino to view normally.

• Change the sideswitch on the Wacom tables pen to “disable” all will work well, except you loose functionality of the sideswitch.

OR

• Turn Off the Windows Feature “Tablet PC Optional Components”.
  • 1. Close Rhino and go to Control Panel/Program Features.
  • 2. On the left in the margins, pick the option “Turn Windows Features On.”
  • 3. In the Windows Features dialog, look at the setting “Tablet PC Optional Components.” It is on by default. Uncheck it to turn it off.
  • 4. Close Dialog. Re-start Rhino.

According to Microsoft, Tablet PC control adds or removes accessories such as Tablet PC Input Panel, Windows Journal, and the Snipping Tool. Enabling this feature also installs software that enables handwriting recognition. Though this feature is not necessary to install unless you have a Tablet PC, by not installing it you will not have access to the Snipping Tool which is a very handy application. The Snipping Tool allows you to draw a selection of your screen that you would like to take a snippet, or screenshot.

We are working with Wacom to find a better solution.

HP's notebooks may use a fingerprint scanning product developed by DigitalPersona that causes the same button tooltip problem on flyout toolbars on Rhino 4.0 that normally caused by Vista/Windows 7's Tablet PC components when a tablet is installed. If turning off Tablet PC components can't solve the problem, you might as well check if the computer has a fingerprint scanner or related applications, especially the ones come from DigitalPersona.

In the case we got from a user on 21-Jan-2011 was a “HP TouchSmart tm2-2012tx”. It has “HP SimplePass Identity Protection” installed that installs applications from DigitalPersona. The application causes the problem is “C:\Program Files (x86)\DigitalPersona\Bin\DPAgent.exe”. To solve the problem, you can turn the “DpAgent.exe *32” off from Windows Task Manger and rename it with a different name to make it not run automatically when Windows starts.

-Kelvin

Some users have seen this problem of linked toolbars not flying out without a Wacom tablet. Several users have reported that if a wireless Logitech mouse is being used with a Microsoft mouse driver, the toolbar flyouts don't work. Matching up the mouse hardware and driver seems to fix the problem. -JB

This problem was partially fixed with V4 SR4. A problem remains with displaying Tooltips in cascaded (flyout) toolbars. We continue to recommend turning off the “Tablet PC Optional Components”. -JB

A fix to this problem will be availalbe in Rhino 4 Service Release 3 (sr3) which is currently under development. A beta will first be posted to the Rhino Support Newsgroup for testing by the user base. Watch the Rhino Support Newsgroup for this announcement. When SR3 is finalized, it will be available for download off the Rhino web site's download page. -JB