Having an issue with the Editor being grayed out after closing preview

I think I just had the same thing happen; I returned to Construct and the editor window was completely greyed out. Are you using Chrome? If so I managed to fix it using a method that also works if your browser window blacks out:

Right click on the the chrome icon in the taskbar and open an incognito window - once it's open, close it and the Construct Editor should be restored.

mekonbekon I will try that, thanks!

also when I run the game, I'm in worker mode, so I would think it wouldn't have anything to do with the current Chrome thread.

Since my orig post it happens now regularly - I've been testing a specific layout with Preview. I'm not sure if it's something in the project I'm working on or not. I usually can fix it by running the full program (F4 literally the only thing it responds to) and then hitting Escape after the game runs, but sometimes it doesn't work and I have to run it 2-3 times before it comes back.

mekonbekon opening a new Chrome Incognito didn't work for me. I just have to run it again (F4) and Escape out - it seems to work about 75% of the time. It's extremely annoying.

It may have something to do with fullscreen maybe?

Ashley do you by chance know what is happening? I run a game from C3 using F4-key and sometimes when I exit it (using Browser Close within the game) when I go back to Construct it is grayed out as if I had a window/dialogue open. It won't let me do anything, except I can hit F4 again. Then usually from there the game runs again and I can close that tab and when I return to C3 its back to normal. It seems to happen about 25% of the time when I run a game. This just started happening this past week. using Chrome.

I've no idea. I think a greyed out window might be Chrome unloading the page due to inactivity or out-of-memory, but it shouldn't be doing that with an open page.

It's not clear what anyone's actually seeing. Can someone share a screenshot? I'm not sure if it's Construct's own dimmer, or something the browser is doing.

FYI someone posted an off-topic reply, it got a couple of replies, and then the original poster deleted their reply, so I cleaned up the thread to avoid it looking weird.

Ashley the "grayed out form" is the same grayed out look the rest of the sheet gets when you double-click an action and get the pop-up box. The Sheet underneath the pop-up dialogue is grayed out.

Except that when I return from the worker (closed using Browser>Close) the Construct3 Sheet is completely grayed out as if I have a dialogue opened.

It seems only hot keys work like: Ctrl-S and F4. When you play the game again and close, it usually goes back to normal. But one time tonight it happened 4 times in a row. But other than that time it does feel random. I'll see if I can get a good screen shot of it.. not sure it will show you much.

OK, so that sounds more like something to do with Construct. But there's still very little to go on, as ever the reproducible steps are key. Any idea if you can narrow down when precisely the "greying out" (dimmer) appears?

I followed those steps with Ghost Shooter, and it worked fine.

OK, so that sounds more like something to do with Construct. But there's still very little to go on, as ever the reproducible steps are key. Any idea if you can narrow down when precisely the "greying out" (dimmer) appears?

Ashley Another clue is that it does not seem to happen on small projects. I have a project that is about 2000 events and 5000 actions with 8 layouts and 15 event sheets and this is where it seems to happen often.

When I try to reproduce the problem, it doesn't happen, this is why it feels random or something I am doing and not totally aware of... I'm usually quitting the game really fast because I am testing, maybe the game is in the middle of some action or something? But I am using worker so I'm not sure how that effects the Construct tab in Chrome.

Not working on it until tomorrow, I will investigate more then...