catlin_mc opened this issue on Jul 06, 2004 ยท 9 posts
SamTherapy posted Tue, 06 July 2004 at 12:28 PM
Yup. It's because Poser had pretty much disappeared up its own arse by that time. The Cancel button will work if Poser isn't chugging away at a long process. Chances are, Poser is doing some ridiculously long number crunching and won't listen to the outside world until that's finished. The program routines go something like this: 1. Calculate a number and pass the result to the program register. 2 .When that's finished, pop your head around the door and see if anyone is telling me to do something else. 3. If they are, stop what you're doing and do what the person outside is telling you to do. 4 .If they aren't, carry on with the next task on the list. I believe it works on interrupts, in the same way that XP and other systems read the keyboard; in other words, it has to wait for a gap in the running process before it can actually do anything. In this case, Poser isn't getting past step 1. There's not a whole lot you can do about it when it gets to this stage, but Task Manager will shut it down eventually.
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