I've just started experiencing a maddening issue in my Flare 2020 installation.
I need to insert the check mark character into a topic, so I click Insert > Insert Character > Insert Character. This action should open the Character dialog, allowing me to select the check mark for insertion.
It's doing something, all right, but not what I need. It might be opening the Character dialog, but if it is, it is opening behind some other element in my Flare window, because it's completely invisible. And because Flare is waiting for an action in the dialog, the rest of the Flare window becomes completely unresponsive. You click anywhere and you get the Windows chime that indicates "finish current action first". Except I can't because the dialog is nowhere to be found!
I've minimized all windows in case it was an external Flare window, but no luck. I've tried control-tabbing and alt-tabbing, but nothing. The only thing I could do was close Flare gracelessly using Task Manager, and re-open my project.
I also tried to open the Character dialog using the alternative method of clicking the Character icon in the XML editor window, then clicking More Characters. This gave me the same symptoms described above. (The third method, pressing Shift + F11, doesn't do anything that I could see, but Flare remained responsive).
I was finally able to insert the check mark by using the text editor to insert the code below where I needed the character.
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<span style="font-family: 'Wingdings'">ü</span>
Thank you,
Eric