Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

[Mark Talluto]

On Mar 28, 2014, at 8:17 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> 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, and the only way out is to force-quit the app.
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> Has anyone dealt with this before? I can think of other ways to implement what we need, but am curious if there is a way to avoid the freeze-up.


How do you bring up the dialog?  Is it custom or LC made?  I have not seen the problem.  No obvious things come to mind.  Can you recreate it? Do other clients say this is happening to them as well?


Best regards,

Mark Talluto
canelasoftware.com