inview message and minimizing

#1

Has anyone come across why inview messages disappear when I minimize the script editor, if it is up they work fine and when closed but they seem to disappear with existing windows that are minimized…
Am I missing something here… ?
I use them extensively for reminders and hot key reminders etc.

http://help.autodesk.com/cloudhelp/2015/CHS/Maya-Tech-Docs/Commands/inViewMessage.html

#2

Bumping this thread because I’m having the same problem :frowning:

inViewMessage -amg ("<p style=\"color:#F05A5A;\"> Things and stuff 

 ") -dk -pos topLeft -fade ;

The following line works fine even with the script editor minimized,but after executing it a few times it starts to appear randomly when i call it.Any idea of what might cause the issue ?

Thanks !

#3

Hey there, doesn’t work for me… leaving out “fade” so its static, minimize script editor and it disappears…

#4

I couldn’t get them to work reliably either. I didn’t try too hard though, since working or not, they are not mission critical for me, and other things took priority.

David

#5

I have appended a function that uses them to almost every script I run . . . It’s a nice user experience for me to see “History frozen…” pop up momentarily say if I freeze the history, rather than a print statment. So works great except for the open windows issue. ~Another workaround would be to make your own alert box, sleep it (pause command?)and the close it so it only appears momentarily too.