I am having a problem with FM 8 Advanced that makes it essentially unusable for me. Often a dialogue box or window pops up or becomes a completely blank white space when I transition from one thing to another involving a window adjustment. For example, if I export records, after the export, the space on the screen where the export window was is just a pure blank white space. I'm using a mac running os x.4.2. I'm wondering if it's worth experimenting to try and track the problem down, or if others have seen this problem. It seems _possible_ that it's related to CodeTek Virtual desktop, but I haven't had such a problem with any other application.

Edited October 16, 200520 yr by Guest

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I've seen similar behavior in Timbuktu, so I'd strongly suspect the CodeTek Virtual Desktop. I suggest disabling it and seeing if the behavior is still there.

I wish I'd seen this post earlier, 'cause I just spent hours troubleshooting an almost identical problem. In my case, windows were abruptly blinking to blank white space every time I clicked in a checkbox. Only way out of the blank was to close and reopen the window, or switch to Layout mode and back. NOT convenient. The misbehavior was somewhat intermittent at first, but for some reason had progressed to being persistent by last week. It disappeared when I did a Safe Boot (Mac, OS X 10.4.5), so I started looking for the culprit. Took a while to eliminate all the suspects, but it was definitely Codetek Virtual Desktop. FWIW, replacing CTVD with Virtue did not resurrect the problem.