Strange display problem

[DMacPherson]

I have a frustrating problem were when I start FM 4 the menu bar and pull-down menus are blank or displayed in a very strange way. The keyboard still controls FM. If you know where a menu item is you can guess on its' location and it will work. Also the layout does not display correctly, large portions are blank. Searched FileMaker technical database. Found references to fonts causing problems. I have reviewed, examined, replaced, etc. the fonts and have come up with nothing. Followed all the other suggestions I could find in that database. This problem does not occur every time, no predictable pattern yet. Only remedy is to restart the computer not just FM.

Any ideas?

Doug

[mlazarus]

Hi Has anyone being able to help you with your problem? maybe they can help me with mine? I have been having a problem with the status bar fonts being in a almost unreadable font. I have tried reinstalling FMP 4.1 with no success. Is there anyway to change the font for the status Bar? What is the font that is used so I can try and chech to see if that font is in my system? Any other ideas?

Michael

[CobaltSky]

The status bar font on MacOS is 'Geneva', and under Windows is 'MS Sans Serif'.

From your post I'm guessing that you are on Mac. Reinstalling the font may help. If not you may do well to boot with extensions off and trouble-shoot for a resouce (init) conflict.