interface lockups

And me.
I will be sending the Lindens the bill when I have to start dyeing my hair due to grayness from this!

I just want to build my village!

*sobs*

I think I know how to avoid the problem. Last night I did not run SL in full screen mode. Plus when I selected one of the data fields in the editor I only did a single click and did not do a click and drag. I typed the whole new value in. Example, if the X posistion field had 93.687 in it and I wanted an even 93.675, I did not try to just highlight the 87 digits and change them. I typed in the whole number 93.675 and tabed or clicked to a different field. Not once did I have the problem I had the other night.

Sure you are working in a smaller and slightly slower screen but if you do lockup it will be easyer to activate the task manager and force a shutdown of SL if you sould get a hard lockup of the keys and non-funtional mouse buttons.

[UPDATE] For at least one of these problems... thank you. Bug entered. More details:

http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/08/04/focus-pocus/

[UPDATE] I learned via Dan and Callum that this has already been resolved internally. So have no fear, a public fix will be available soon—infact, Preview 1.11.3 already has it!

EDIT: Whoops.. I just relized there's another page.. XD

I've also had problems with everything just locking up. It's happened to me quite a lot recently, and it makes it very hard to build or really do anything in SL.

This needs to be fixed immediately, along with the chatbar not opening when you press "Enter". I know the chatbar problem isn't a bug, but I, and many many other people, think it really does need to be brought back to the way it used to. I'm -still- not getting used to the new function of "Enter" opening up whatever is "highlighted". I end up jumping around and running into things and opening windows and doing who knows what in them. Oh, and "Tab", too. Bring back "Tab" making your camera and avatar look at people who are talking.

I normally don't complain when a mistake is made or something bad happens during an update because, well, it's expected, but SL is just getting more difficult to use. Please fix the lock-ups, the chatbar, and all the other bugs -before- you start adding new features, LL.

trouble is we never know how it will behave untill its on main grid -.-;

it's really sad, w/ such a good concept like sl that we spend most of our game time/play settling and working around poor performance. I have seen many good enhancements since joinng in 2004, but in the same breath i have seen the game horribly drift in quality e.g texture, lag, and a host of bugs (.shouldn't we take a sec and reflect back to what use to work?

When editing...I have found two things that fix the focus problem without restarting. One is to select another tab in the edit box and two is to minimize then maximize the window. Still an annoyance, but it's much faster. In other windows without tabs, the only option is the second one.

Can't minimize "Pay..." dialogs.

Minimize the whole SL client via the taskbar button. Not the child dialogs inside Second Life itself. Then restore. Sorted.

/signed

Locks up on doing almost anything.

To add to the woes

I am now getting a problem with prims jumping about after i have finished moving them. this normally happens when using the arrow to drag to a new position or size or if i use the up/down pointers in the edit window. So I am now screwed which ever method i try to use to edit prims(((((

This also happens when trying to texture several prims at once. I get different textures on each prim and when i try to adjust soze/position of the texture it only registers on some of the prims.

Looks like building and improving the environment in SL is now a thing of the past

If by some slim chance a Linden bothers to read this please take note that it is people like us who are paying your wages and keeping this crippled and dying sim from going down the pan. If we get fed up and leave as I am sure many are contemplating then the content will become static and eventually die.

I am going to im as many Lindens as i can while online and suggest that everyone does the same then they may get fed up with the spam im's and get something done.

Yep I got this prim jumping thing too...

Not sure which I despise more... prim jumping or interface lockups. Or maybe the prize goes to jumping like an idiot because of the unwanted focus changes in the UI.

I did however notice that since the last update my clothes actually rez when I put them on without having to change group or go into appearance.

I am hoping that wednesday will fix us up. Besides, I really want LL to get past 1.11 so we can have the group changes in 1.12 which is a feature set that I finally actually WANT!

happens to me when making a text change in the edit window, can't click on anything except the red X in the top right of the screen to close sl. this occurs 3 out of 5 times while editing. most annoying

Me too. But I had to re-log to get out, after trying nearly everything. At the time I was taking a snapshot and saving to disk, which took longer than usual (oh yes, I do this fairly often!) and when the save finished, eventually, and went back out of snapshot mode, the animation I was snapping wouldn't stop. The animation continued but everything else was locked. I could type in chat and IMs, but when sending by hitting Enter, they went nowhere, just disappeared. Am now waiting till next time, unless I repro the situation as a test, to try out the "fix" of minimising and maximising the screen.

Will give an update following the next occurrence, I'm sure there will be one.