[BUG]: Pop-up notifications are freezing the suite

[natashaemory]

Describe the bug When trying to clear a pop-up message, the countdown to closing and script freeze. Ran into the issue when running special annotators on the Harry Potter corpus.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to Gender Annotator GUI
2. Click on "Annotate nouns & pronouns gender" option
3. "Reminder: CoreNLP exporting Json files pop-up appears", attempt to exit out of it, suite freezes

(stuck at 26 seconds)

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Mac OS
• Release Version - NLP 3.3.6 version

This issue occurs in other GUI's as well.

[Emory-NLP]

What do you do exactly when the Yes/No reminder pops up?

[natashaemory]

What do you do exactly when the Yes/No reminder pops up?

Clicking either yes or no results in a freeze

[natashaemory]

What do you do exactly when the Yes/No reminder pops up?

Clicking either yes or no results in a freeze

In this screenshot, I clicked no

[Emory-NLP]

Hard to test since it does not happen on my Windows machine. We will ask tomorrow in class if others have the same experience. Then we can try to find a solution.

[Emory-NLP]

We will look into this issue with Mino. In class, other students showed that the Y/N question stayed on but the code behind kept running. Does this behavior happen ONLY with the Json question?

[Emory-NLP]

Mino, it may be that the only problem is with the code below in Stanford_CoreNLP_util. The CoreNLP code simply keeps running and Y/N do not respond until CoreNLP is done.

# Json_question_already_asked to avoid repeating the reminders question when multiple annotators are used
if (outputDir !='') and (export_json_toTxt and not Json_question_already_asked):
    # check reminder
    reminder_status = reminders_util.checkReminder(config_filename,
                                                   reminders_util.title_options_CoreNLP_Json,
                                                   reminders_util.message_CoreNLP_Json,
                                                   True, silent)
    if reminder_status == 'Yes' or reminder_status == 'ON':  # 'Yes' the old way of saving reminders
        # create a subdirectory of the output directory
        outputJsonDir = IO_files_util.make_output_subdirectory(inputFilename, inputDir, outputDir,
                                                               label='Json',
                                                               silent=True)