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Old 04-03-2020, 05:04 PM   #1
DavidTC
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Broken viewer

So I'm not sure exactly when this happened, I usually read on other devices, but my 'E-book viewer' has stopped working. It brings up a window that is entirely in black. It has a title bar, and...nothing. This is on Windows 10, normal install of Calibre 64-bit. I mean, I have a reasonable amount of plug-ins, but none of those do anything in the viewer, right?

Some clues:
1) This happened a while back, but _after_ the new viewer. I know that was working at some point.
2) It's not actually broken, just all black. If I click and drag on the very first page, I can drag the book cover image out, despite not being able to see it until it hits the boundaries of the window. Likewise, I can apparently hilite text, despite getting no feedback (Not even a blue hilite rectangle, like you normally get of black text on a black background.) and copy it out. There's also an invisible horizontal resizing bar somewhere in the middle I can hover over and actually move...as in, I put it somewhere else, and then have to hover over that place to find it again. I just cannot see _anything_ whatsoever.
3) ...except...I have, by hitting escape (Which presumably brings up an invisible menu), and clicking around, managed to get to the search thing! I CAN see that little popup with the X, with search area and everything. Searching works, it returns results, that whole little window works. Likewise, I've brought up the 'open a book' menu'.

So, basically, everything works, except I can't see the content area. Or the menu area, if that counts as a separate area. At all.
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