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*sigh*. I have two monitors. I start up the Global War FastPlay saved game.

After setting up the Polish units, the game asks me if I want to align Siam. I say yes.....game appears to hang.
What is really happening, is a dialog box has opened up behind the Map. Since it has exclusive focus, I cannot move the map out of the way.

Annoying, but prewarned, I kill the process, and restart the game. This time I collapse the map into a toolbar. And click the offending dialog box (which apparently doesn't allow me to use keys such as ENTER(OK)/ESC(No).

Movement time...I move the Japanese land army around a bit in China. On to the Germans.

I move a German unit into Danzig to overrun the boat docked there. Poof..game appears to freeze...again, it probably has a dialog box I cannot interact with, as it is hidden behind the main map.

Is there someway I can bring these Dialog boxes to the front? Or interact them with the keyboard, since they have focus?

When I was playing around with the global war with setup, I managed to get into a couple turns without having this occur.

I should add that I haven't done anything to dramatic to the screen layout. All forms are on my main (larger) monitor. I moved the Main form below the Detailed map..left the Game form/MV form alone.

So my Detailed map is not maximized, and the Main form is accessible. All on one screen.

Well, I seemed to have solved my problem. Apparently, the dialog boxes pop up (EDIT: directly) below the Main form. So by moving the Main form below the Detailed Map, I make the game unplayable. No doubt there is some sort of note on this in the forum somewhere..

ORIGINAL: LiquidSky


Well, I seemed to have solved my problem. Apparently, the dialog boxes pop up (EDIT: directly) below the Main form. So by moving the Main form below the Detailed Map, I make the game unplayable. No doubt there is some sort of note on this in the forum somewhere..

I am glad you figured this out. I was about to post the solution you found. I'm sorry that you had to go this trouble though.[:(] The code should be more forgiving for where the Main form is placed. My mistake. I'll get around to fixing all of these Main form location problems pretty soon; there are a lot of players running afoul of that code.[:@]