Fabian GiesenOct 3, 2023
I just whined about this elsewhere, but this makes a good post, so:
1. a very good feature of default Win32 message boxes is that they implement Ctrl-C to copy the error message and window title into the clipboard (formatted and everything)
2. way too few people know this, and accordingly, custom message boxes basically never implement this
3. if you work on custom UI libraries that have some message box facility, you should!
Show threadajft [SEC=continvoucly morged]Oct 3, 2023
@rygorous so many times in a support role have I asked people to use this, and so many times do they ignore our request and screen grab the message box (or entire screen), paste that into a Word document, then email the Word document
Show threadAras PranckevičiusOct 3, 2023
@ajft @rygorous luxury! people these days film the screen with their phone, and send a video
Show threadaburka šŸ«£Oct 3, 2023
@aras @ajft @rygorous More like they say, "yeah we got an error last week, I heard from my employee who said his coworker saw some kind of pop-up but they closed it because it was in the way, but can you tell us why it doesn't work? We have a demo for the CEO in 10 minutes"
Show threadAndre Weissflog
@aburka @aras @ajft @rygorous that's why I insisted on making assert/error popups not ignoreable in our inhouse tools, even if that way any triggered assert disrupts the artist workflow. Unfortunately that's the only way to get breakage actually fixed instead of ignored.
Oct 3, 2023 at 9:59amWeb