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Gentlemen,

I encountered the situation again today where the UI quit letting me use the selection rectangle entirely, to include when trying to select destination airbases for xfer mission.

Previously I speculated I thought it was due to an underlying resource leak. After checking today when it happened, I could not see any noticeable leaked resources or thread.

In fact, I would have to say it is completely unrelated to a resource leak.

Now I am guessing perhaps some internal UI state is out-of-wack? Perhaps a variable that is checked just prior to allowing the user to draw the selection window?

If I had thought about it, I would have ran Spy++, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visual ... ew=vs-2022 to try and capture the windows msgs. But I didn't think about it at the time.

I tried all kinds of things to force it out of its weird no-selection-rectangle state, to include:
* hit ESC a bunch of times;
* tried xferring AC from a completely different air-base;
* just interacting with the UI;

Note: Popup windows were not affected this time and I could still active them via the UI.

Ultimately, I had to do a quicksave and reload the game in order to be able to access the UI selection rectangle functionality again.

Since a screenshot of this is meaningless... perhaps I can make a video next time?

Was able to use a different screenshot tool to provide an example of the functionality that stops working....


The selection rectangle from when you activate by clicking the airbase label-bar and then holding down the SHIFT key, it completely stops working....

NOTE:The following is an example of it actually working.... In fact, anything involving the selection rectangle no longer functions. The selection rectangle fails to render onto the UI anymore.

Something does seem to screw up the interface at some point. When you save and reload, does it always fix the issue? How long did you have the game running before it happened? Realistically I don't know that we will be able to fix this given it's not repeatable. Without any more specific clues, it sounds like a time suck for Pavel's time, which unfortunately has been very limited. I don't deny that something isn't going wrong, just don't know what we can do about it.

Yes, saving and reloading always fixes it.

I understand it being a time-sink for Pavel. I can't seem to find a repeatable use-case pattern to make it happen.

I had similar issues which cleared after I updated my graphics card drivers (i had missed an update).
You might be having the same issue?

I've added this to the bug list. WarHorse2 sent me some additional info that may be useful in tracking this down in the future.