MAX - Items disapearing

[carlover]

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Hi all,

I have NI-7356 motion card installed on Win XP box. After initial set up in MAX (encoders, quadrature, etc.) my robotics system runs fine in LabVIEW 8.5 PDS. After a while (weeks) I did notice that certain items in the MAX three start disappearing - for example if I want to see all options for Axis 1 some items are just blank, althoug "bullet space" for it is there - I'll post a screen shot tomorrow.... I am not sure when the items start disapearing but they are definently not there. NI support was stumpped - beside customary re-install suggestion, they even sugested to change XP look to "classic" as it might have something to do with relationship between MAX and system graphics. It didn't help. As a note that might, or might not, be relevant - once I do my set up and some LV work, robotics system is used by custom application written in C# (same computer and everything else). They tell me that app dosn't "touch" MAX but the calls to motion just use settings from MAX (although they do change veleocity and target position...).

Anyone ever see this or have any ideas?