Window doesn't update in Windows under high contrast mode #42545

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Aaron Carlisle · 2014-11-08T22:52:49+01:00

Aaron Carlisle commented

2014-11-08 22:52:49 +01:00

System Information
Windows 8.0 Intel Graphics 4600

Blender Version
Broken: 2.72b
Worked: (optional)

Short description of error
Using this high contrast theme will cause blender to not open correctly and will not take commands for the mouse or keyboard

Exact steps for others to reproduce the error

Use the attached theme for windows
Open Blender

**System Information** Windows 8.0 Intel Graphics 4600 **Blender Version** Broken: 2.72b Worked: (optional) **Short description of error** Using this high contrast theme will cause blender to not open correctly and will not take commands for the mouse or keyboard **Exact steps for others to reproduce the error** 1. Use the attached theme for windows 2. Open Blender

Aaron Carlisle commented

2014-11-08 22:52:49 +01:00

Changed status to: 'Open'

Aaron Carlisle commented

2014-11-08 22:52:49 +01:00

Added subscriber: @Blendify

blender-admin commented

2014-11-08 22:52:49 +01:00

#53492 was marked as duplicate of this issue

blender-admin commented

2014-11-08 22:52:49 +01:00

#45799 was marked as duplicate of this issue

Aaron Carlisle commented

2014-11-08 23:02:29 +01:00

sorry forgot to attach the theme{F122778}

sorry forgot to attach the theme{[F122778](https://archive.blender.org/developer/F122778/Blue.deskthemepack)}

Bastien Montagne commented

2014-11-09 15:19:58 +01:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Archived'

Bastien Montagne closed this issue

2014-11-09 15:19:58 +01:00

Bastien Montagne self-assigned this 2014-11-09 15:19:58 +01:00

Bastien Montagne commented

2014-11-09 15:19:58 +01:00

Please do not use third-party windows themes with Blender, many of them are known to 'hack' into windows and hence to break Blender, which also needs access to the GPU (unlike most applications).

Aaron Carlisle commented

2014-11-09 17:53:24 +01:00

Mont29,
The attached theme is not a third party theme it is simply a high contrasts theme that I have saved into a file. So I know that it is not hacking my computer. However I do not know if turning on high contrast will disable some gpu functions such as OpenGL. I will Research and if I find anything i will reopen this bug.

Mont29, The attached theme is not a third party theme it is simply a high contrasts theme that I have saved into a file. So I know that it is not hacking my computer. However I do not know if turning on high contrast will disable some gpu functions such as OpenGL. I will Research and if I find anything i will reopen this bug.

Aaron Carlisle commented

2014-11-09 18:11:55 +01:00

Alright so I did some research and apparently when you turn on high contrast it disables desktop window manager. However there should be a possibility that it could be coded around.

I found this out from this forum
http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=12101.0

Alright so I did some research and apparently when you turn on high contrast it disables desktop window manager. However there should be a possibility that it could be coded around. I found this out from this forum http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=12101.0

Aaron Carlisle commented

2014-11-09 18:12:10 +01:00

Changed status from 'Archived' to: 'Open'

Aaron Carlisle reopened this issue

2014-11-09 18:12:10 +01:00

Bastien Montagne commented

2014-11-09 18:14:00 +01:00

Added subscribers: @MartijnBerger, @Sergey

Bastien Montagne commented

2014-11-09 18:14:00 +01:00

Martijn, Sergey, is this considered a bug? I don’t think so, but…

Bastien Montagne removed their assignment 2014-11-09 18:14:13 +01:00

Campbell Barton commented

2014-11-10 11:09:11 +01:00

Added subscriber: @ideasman42

Campbell Barton commented

2014-11-10 11:09:11 +01:00

Seems this effects other opengl apps (C4d, MSI, Sculptris)

Looks like there isn't any known workarounds

Seems this effects other opengl apps (C4d, MSI, Sculptris) - https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=170408.0 - http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=12101.5;wap2 - http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?176768-Sculptris-and-Windows-8-problem - http://www.eightforums.com/customization/21955-classic-theme-windows-8-a-2.html#post295785 Looks like there isn't any known workarounds

Aaron Carlisle commented

2014-11-10 15:41:13 +01:00

Update:
Blender will not work if you turn on high contrast then open Blender. However if you open Blender then turn on high contrast it will work.

Update: Blender will not work if you turn on high contrast then open Blender. However if you open Blender then turn on high contrast it will work.

Bastien Montagne commented

2014-11-14 09:32:16 +01:00

Changed status from 'Open' to: 'Archived'

Bastien Montagne closed this issue

2014-11-14 09:32:16 +01:00

Bastien Montagne self-assigned this 2014-11-14 09:32:16 +01:00

Bastien Montagne commented

2014-11-14 09:32:16 +01:00

I do not see the point in keeping this open much longer, we cannot do anything about it currently, this sounds like MS bug to me anyway.

Campbell Barton commented

2015-08-19 08:42:20 +02:00

Added subscribers: @JulianEisel, @jameswilddev

Campbell Barton changed title from ~~Blender not responding to commands~~ to Window doesn't update in Windows under high contrast mode

2015-08-19 08:43:20 +02:00

Pedro J. Estébanez commented

2016-06-22 23:44:03 +02:00

Added subscriber: @RandomShaper

Pedro J. Estébanez commented

2016-06-22 23:44:03 +02:00

While contributing to another OSS project afflicted of the same, I found the cause for this and the solution.

As Microsoft explains in a document about compatibility with high contrast themes for Windows 8 and up the executable manifest must have certain items.

I applied those changes to the manifest of the application I'm contributing to and now it renders perfectly under a high contrast theme, when it did not show anything before the change.

I have just registered on this platform just to let you know this since as a recent Blender user I'd like a lot to be able to work with it under HC.

Regards!

While contributing to another OSS project afflicted of the same, I found the cause for this and the solution. As Microsoft explains in [a document about compatibility with high contrast themes ](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh404233(v=vs.85).aspx#_______supporting_high_contrast_themes_in_windows_8_and_later) for Windows 8 and up the executable manifest must have certain items. I applied those changes to the manifest of the application I'm contributing to and now it renders perfectly under a high contrast theme, when it did not show anything before the change. I have just registered on this platform just to let you know this since as a recent Blender user I'd like a lot to be able to work with it under HC. Regards!

Campbell Barton commented

2016-06-23 01:26:12 +02:00

Changed status from 'Archived' to: 'Open'

Campbell Barton reopened this issue

2016-06-23 01:26:12 +02:00

Campbell Barton commented

2016-06-23 01:26:12 +02:00

@RandomShaper, thanks for the heads up.

Could you link to the commit that resolved the issue for the other application?

@RandomShaper, thanks for the heads up. Could you link to the commit that resolved the issue for the other application?

Pedro J. Estébanez commented

2016-06-23 01:42:08 +02:00

Of course!

[[ 85a5290ee8 ]]

Of course! [[ https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/5364/commits/85a5290ee8a4c95be19f086181379330baf0deed ]]

Pedro J. Estébanez commented

2016-06-23 01:52:15 +02:00

For a quick test create a blender.manifest file at the Blender installation directory with this content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
    <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
        <security>
            <requestedPrivileges>
                <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false"/>
            </requestedPrivileges>
        </security>
    </trustInfo>
    <compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1">
        <application>
            <!-- Windows 10 -->
            <supportedOS Id="{8e0f7a12-bfb3-4fe8-b9a5-48fd50a15a9a}"/>
            <!-- Windows 8.1 -->
            <supportedOS Id="{1f676c76-80e1-4239-95bb-83d0f6d0da78}"/>
            <!-- Windows 8 -->
            <supportedOS Id="{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}"/>
            <!-- Windows 7 -->
            <supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/>
            <!-- Windows Vista -->
            <supportedOS Id="{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}"/>
        </application>
    </compatibility>
</assembly>

Now, as long as the manifest tool is in the PATH:

mt -manifest blender.manifest -outputresource:blender.exe;1

Then switch to a high contrast theme, run blender.exe and see it working. :)

For a quick test create a **blender.manifest** file at the Blender installation directory with this content: ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"> <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3"> <security> <requestedPrivileges> <requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false"/> </requestedPrivileges> </security> </trustInfo> <compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1"> <application>  <supportedOS Id="{8e0f7a12-bfb3-4fe8-b9a5-48fd50a15a9a}"/>  <supportedOS Id="{1f676c76-80e1-4239-95bb-83d0f6d0da78}"/>  <supportedOS Id="{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}"/>  <supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/>  <supportedOS Id="{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}"/> </application> </compatibility> </assembly> ``` Now, as long as the [manifest tool ](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa375649(v=vs.85).aspx) is in the `PATH`: `mt -manifest blender.manifest -outputresource:blender.exe;1` Then switch to a high contrast theme, run **blender.exe** and see it working. :)

Martijn Berger commented

2016-06-23 17:06:16 +02:00

so we should add this, thx for doing the research

Pedro J. Estébanez commented

2016-06-23 21:00:02 +02:00

Don't mention it!

Sergey Sharybin commented

2016-06-28 09:52:46 +02:00

@MartijnBerger, @mont29, are anyone of you looking into creating such a manifest? We can probably skip mt and ship manifest as a file next to executable for the simplicity?

@MartijnBerger, @mont29, are anyone of you looking into creating such a manifest? We can probably skip `mt` and ship manifest as a file next to executable for the simplicity?

Bastien Montagne removed their assignment 2016-06-28 09:55:08 +02:00

Martijn Berger was assigned by Bastien Montagne

2016-06-28 09:55:08 +02:00

Bastien Montagne commented

2016-06-28 09:55:08 +02:00

Erf, this was only assigned to me because I archived that task two years ago! :P

Think this is task for platform maintainer ;)

Erf, this was only assigned to me because I archived that task two years ago! :P Think this is task for platform maintainer ;)

Pedro J. Estébanez commented

2016-06-28 14:59:36 +02:00

At Godot we have found issues on some old graphics card with the enhanced manifest.

You can follow our research at the page for the issue .

Anyway, I'll post here what we find.

At Godot we have found issues on some old graphics card with the enhanced manifest. You can follow our research at [the page for the issue ](https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/5452). Anyway, I'll post here what we find.

Pedro J. Estébanez commented

2016-06-29 14:27:05 +02:00

The setup known to give issues with Godot (Intel HD Graphics 3000 on 32-bit Windows 10) fails also for Blender with the modified manifest. It complains about no h/w acceleration.

That card is not officially supported for that platform so that is more or less expected.

The setup known to give issues with Godot (Intel HD Graphics 3000 on 32-bit Windows 10) fails also for Blender with the modified manifest. It complains about no h/w acceleration. That card is not officially supported for that platform so that is more or less expected.

Martijn Berger was unassigned by Aaron Carlisle

2017-04-14 21:06:17 +02:00

Ray molenkamp was assigned by Aaron Carlisle

2017-04-14 21:06:17 +02:00

Campbell Barton commented

2017-12-13 05:58:00 +01:00

Added subscribers: @nemesis326, @StephenSwaney

Ray molenkamp was unassigned by Dalai Felinto

2019-12-23 16:37:58 +01:00

Dalai Felinto commented

2019-12-23 16:37:58 +01:00

Added subscriber: @LazyDodo

Aaron Carlisle commented

2019-12-25 02:09:14 +01:00

Changed status from 'Confirmed' to: 'Resolved'

Aaron Carlisle closed this issue

2019-12-25 02:09:14 +01:00

Aaron Carlisle self-assigned this 2019-12-25 02:09:14 +01:00

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Window doesn't update in Windows under high contrast mode #42545