Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/28/14, 10:21 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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?

It's just the built-in LiveCode "ask password" dialog. We've only tested 
on one machine running Windows 8, but the client says it has happened 
many times on that computer. I could put up a separate stack instead but 
it's easier to just use the dialog.

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 LiveCode 6.6, btw.

Hm...just happened to think, there was that freeze on Windows in 6.6 
that got fixed in 6.7. I wonder if that's it.

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