I have solved the problem! See the original post, "A strange problem with modeless dialog boxes", for details.
This is a repost, incorporating the latest simplifications of the problem statement, and a minimal reproducible example of the code...
I'm having a problem with modeless dialog boxes...
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I have solved the problem! When the AI Bot told me that I was stalling the message loop, I looked deeper. In the original code I was calling PeekMessage() with PM_REMOVE, filtering for WM_KEYDOWN, and then checking for VK_ESCAPE. This consumed the WM_KEYDOWN message but not any other messages...
I have recently installed Windows 10 and I have a problem with timing out on active work spaces. For example if I open up an excel spreadsheet and click on a cell to input data it keeps switching from being active to be non-active every 2-3 seconds. It also occurs with dialogue boxes and pull...
Recently, (and no, rolling back is NOT an option on this computer...) some apps as well as windows 7 itself, have starting doing odd things.
One real pain is that my fonts like to vanish. Especially upon a crash or if I have to hold the power button to shut off the computer, when I start up...
I've just begun using Win 7 and notice all dialog boxes, program windows, etc, open and close like a Mac with an animated action, not like older windows when they'd just appear on the screen. Is there any way to change this animated movement in Win 7?
UPDATE: I just figured it out by going into...
For some localized languages in Windows 7, Bluetooth dialog windows may have truncated text. In addition, in some cases the dialog boxes may display the text in English instead of the expected localized language.
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After having a little fiddle in event viewer (as one does) to see what's going on.. i tried to close the viewer and a box appeared saying that i need to "close all dialog boxes first" before it will close.
after closing ALL the boxes required again clicked close, and again the afore mentioned...
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We bought a new PC in January, and it's been fine until now.
Suddenly last week we started having problems.
Every now and then dialog boxes flicker when you try to click on them and you can't select any options. The same happened with the Start menu - the only way to turn the computer off...
I have this weird problem that cropped up a couple of weeks ago. I have 64-bit Windows 7 installed on my system. I previously had Vista, but did a clean install. I've been running Windows 7 since the middle of December. For some reason the window borders don't show up around certain icons. As...