stop action in daz without just killing the program.

alan bard newcomer

just now in a scene with perhaps twenty items with a base color of xx xx xx I was lazy and used surface selection
ten minutes later the hour glass is still spinning.. how do I kill it 
because obviously I forgot to save every two minutes. 
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Another example would be inserting a character into a scene, realizing it was broken and deleting it. 
that took three hours because I wasn't sure how recently I had saved... 
If I could have canceled the delete I could have saved the scene as a scenesubset without that character in 10 minutes. 
duel xeons, 64g ddr and titanX ... I don't think the computer is lacking. 
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we're at 20 some minutes now but who's counting?

so is there a key command or anything to stop daz's current action? 
The haze on the picture is windows overlay that goes with the program is not responding....  would you like to quit or to wait. 
So 1 hour 15 minutes later.. bite the bullet and kill it. 

evacyn

I don't know of a way you can 'kill' the action. I run into this all the time with Visual Menus, where I'll click the button, nothing happens and then I click it again and it freezes Daz. I learned through trial-and-error that if the progress bar in the bottom corner of the DS window is moving, then essentially some actions are frozen until it finishes the task/action. If you press the action again, then is must flip the DS self-destruct switch and just hangs the program.

You're better off just ending it in Task Manager and restarting - I don't think it ever 'comes back' from this state.

Edit: Another option is just start another DS process and leave the other one in the background in the hopes it does come back, but at least you can continue working.

alan bard newcomer

evacyn said:

I don't know of a way you can 'kill' the action. I run into this all the time with Visual Menus, where I'll click the button, nothing happens and then I click it again and it freezes Daz. I learned through trial-and-error that if the progress bar in the bottom corner of the DS window is moving, then essentially some actions are frozen until it finishes the task/action. If you press the action again, then is must flip the DS self-destruct switch and just hangs the program.

You're better off just ending it in Task Manager and restarting - I don't think it ever 'comes back' from this state.

Edit: Another option is just start another DS process and leave the other one in the background in the hopes it does come back, but at least you can continue working.

yep.... although I have found that sometimes it will complete a delete after a couple of hours... so I will just open a new instance and ignore the sticking one. 
Daz is often generates system messages "the program is not responding" because windows expects a certain timing back and forth from programs... but daz likes to go into "cow mode" and chew it's cud and never move data so the system thinks it's dead but it does come back