I have been having problems with VP3 running on my MacBook Pro (Monterey). The app would open, but the dialog box was completely empty of any information or controls. That is, all that was displayed was a blank dialog box.
The same problem existed for 2 of the Nik modules - Viveza 3 and Perspective FX - and I asked if anyone else was having this problem. No one was, so I started looking for what, on my system, might cause it. The first thing I did was check to see if the problem existed in Safe Mode, and it did not, so it was clear that it was related to one of my startup apps. It turned out to be something called QuickShade which is available in the Apple App Store, but which caused all of my problems when run as a startup app.
Just a warning that there are some apps in the App Store which might cause problems with some Dxo software.
Incidentally, QuickShade only seems to cause this problem when run as a startup app. If I run it after logging in I do not see the same issue.
Yes, and that is why I got it. I usually am on the computer early in the morning before sunrise and I need the screen to be less bright than during the day.
I don’t know why running it as a startup app differs from running it after login, but that is what I am seeing. It affected the following Dxo apps:
ViewPoint 3,
Nik 4 Perspective FX
Nik 4 Viveza
Both of the Nik modules that were affected are new in that they are later versions of previous modules (Viveza) or completely new (Perspective FX). The other Nik modules that were not changed from Nik 2 or Nik 3 did not have this problem. Unfortunately they are also the modules that I use the most (of course).
The problem is that I need to change the screen brightness frequently from about 4 or 5 am up to about 10 am, and then again from about 3 pm until about 6 pm. I know I can do that by opening a dialog box and manually adjusting the screen brightness, but using a keystroke is much simpler and faster.
Further I wanted the screen to automatically open dimmed and using a startup app allowed me to do that. This was never a problem until I did a clean install of the OS. Until then every update I did just carried my old screen app along and it was not a problem. When I did a clean OS install I could no longer use the old app (it was no longer available in the App Store) so I picked up QuickShade and then this problem began.
