Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-04-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
It could be the modal nature of the dialogs. I’ve had a similar thing happen when going to a stack as modal. If I switch to another app and then back again, the controls in the modal stack are unresponsive, which made me avoid that technique like the plague. Bob On Mar 28, 2014, at 20:37 , J.

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-04-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
It also gives you a way back from the brink of bug hell by allowing you to simply use the older version in case something goes horribly awry with your project. Bob On Mar 30, 2014, at 14:11 , Richard Gaskin mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com>> wrote: Larry wrote: I think it is very weird that

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/30/14, 4:01 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: If I install 6.1.2 and do not like it, will I have any issues going back to 6.1.1? No, it should work fine. The file format is the same. The only time reverting would cause a problem is if there is a different file format and you don't s

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Larry wrote: > I think it is very weird that when I  > install a newer version of LC, it keeps > all of the old versions on my  > computer.  But maybe that is by  > design for some reason I don't know  > about? It's for precisely the reason we're discussing: it keeps each version separate so you

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-30 Thread larry
;How to use LiveCode" Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 11:06 AM Subject: Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep On 3/29/14, 6:13 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I'm using 6.1.1 Community on XP Service Pack 3. I routinely have the IDE freeze up and I cannot do anything - in

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/29/14, 6:13 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I'm using 6.1.1 Community on XP Service Pack 3. I routinely have the IDE freeze up and I cannot do anything - including not being able to save. Any ideas on that? Not really, but the most stable version in the 6.1 series is 6.1.2 which I

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/29/14, 6:06 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I didn't get a hang in either case, but when the computer awoke, the ask dialog had disappeared in both cases. Thanks Pete, appreciate the test. Odd that the dialog disappears, I wouldn't have expected that. In any case, that's another reason I should

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-29 Thread larry
2014 5:06 PM Subject: Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I don't have Windows 8 here to try it on but if anyone else wants to test, I'd love to hear what happens. Just type "ask password hello" in the

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Haworth
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I don't have Windows 8 here to try it on but if anyone else wants to test, > I'd love to hear what happens. Just type "ask password hello" in the > message box and walk away until the computer sleeps. Then see what happens. > We're using Liv

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/28/14, 10:21 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Mar 28, 2014, at 8:17 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: My app puts up a dialog if the user has been idle too long. I've received a report that on Windows, if the computer goes to sleep while the dialog is displayed, it is impossible to click any of the but

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 28, 2014, at 8:17 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > My app puts up a dialog if the user has been idle too long. I've received a > report that on Windows, if the computer goes to sleep while the dialog is > displayed, it is impossible to click any of the buttons when the machine > wakes up, an

Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
My app puts up a dialog if the user has been idle too long. I've received a report that on Windows, if the computer goes to sleep while the dialog is displayed, it is impossible to click any of the buttons when the machine wakes up, and the only way out is to force-quit the app. Has anyone dea