Alpha 10 still hangs on turn when many things complete

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I played for about two minutes before my first hang. Srceen for tech completing pops up. Pressing done or selecting new tech makes turn button go light and dark again put does not select new tech or dismiss dialog. Pressing esc cause dialog to go away and something else pops up. Again only esc makes it go away. Once all pop ups have been esc'ed out of you are dead. Turn button at this time is light. Esc does nothing, in fact everything does nothing. Only option is to go to windows and use ctl-alt-dlt to get window to kill program. This is not new to Alpha 10, it was true for the previous one too. Just had hoped it was fixed.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I think I had something similar, although I haven't been able to reproduce it. All the screens seemed to lock up, with only the esc key working. what I did notice however was that clicking the mouse was in fact still executing a new turn..

If it happens again I hope to have some more info.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I've had this happen too but it's not been reproduceable.
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Are you saying that you're losing mouse focus? (You can't click on any buttons or anything)
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
When it happens you can click but the only thing that happens is the turn button blinks. Clinking on anything that should do something does nothing except bink the turn button. Eventually it seems to go in to permanent wait as the turn button goes light and nothing works. Go get out by going to window and using alt-ctl-dlt to end.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I didn't manage to get to the point that John reached with the freezing (killed the app once I knew it was stuck).. however what he says is pretty much exactly what occured with me. It didn't matter what you clicked on, it would always execute a new turn.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I just got a game behave like that. A research completed and that screen showed. The OK-button was unclickable. ESC took me off that screen and showed the research-select screen. But I couldnt click anywhere. The turnbutton was grayed out. The ESC brings out the menu, but it dont responds on mouseclicks. ALT+F4 only way out.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
I have a bunch of
Debug Message: No AutoSave files in current directory.
in my debug.err They have appeard a very long time in the game so it's probably not related.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
When reloaded the game after that crash (autosave) I god a few already researched things in my list. Like shields which completed very long time ago. Im at 4D transformation so shields dont belong in my list.
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
Umm there might be a chance that the game missed those earlier on. I dont remeber. After that shields I got to avatar and ranger. I havent build those in my game so I dont know for sure if Ive researched those before. They were not in my list before tho.
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
I have a theory about that gamehang at the research screen. In my game I click very fast at the turn button. So I might have clicked the turnbutton again just before it managed to show the researchcomplete screen. A therory anyway.
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes, that could be it...Pear isn't very good about giving back focus, as you will have noticed from the sliders...I tweaked the sliders to help them give up focus, so I'll take a look at the buttons.
Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
hmm...now I can't find the code that let the focus go...hopefully because I can't remember what I did, not because the changes were lost...
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
from memory that focus situation could explain it.. I also tend to click fast for end of turns so.. yeah.. might have had a situation as described by Fredrik
Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top
Ok, found the code I used to fix the sliders. Apparently I never checked it in, so I was the only one who had it, and it was only on my desktop pc. I just added it to the default callback for our all our controls, so hopefully that will help. If it works and doesn't mess anything else up, it can go into the next build.