Occasionally, I get stuck with this very irritating behaviour of DDE: Upon an attempt to open a design element, DDE/Notes beeps and freezes. The only way out of it I found so far was to kill Notes using Task Manager. While Notes is being killed, I can see for a short moment the reason why it was freezing: A message box trying to indicate an error or warning while opening said design element. Presumably that message box is modal, which would explain why Notes freezes. However, it never gives me an opportunity to hit that OK (or whatever) button to make it go away. I’ve tried various ways to access the message box, or put the focus on it, all to no avail. The message box never shows up until I kill Notes.
While I consider this a bug, assuming it has previously been reported and will get fixed eventually, I’d also love to know whether there is some workaround or anything one can do to get out of that situation w/o killing Notes.
Thanks for your time.