Re: When presses ENTER on Edit BOX
Some of the messages can be very helpful. For example, we're testing a new
release of our software right now. One of the testers found a problem that
he could easily reproduce, but I couldn't reproduce it here. I "finally"
figured out the difference in our systems and the first time I ran a debug
build an assert popped up identifying the offending line of code. A quick
review of the code revealed the problem in no time. That "mechnism" saved
me a few hours time over how I had to do things in the old days which was
basically guess where the problem might be and hope that I could narrow it
down with some pop up messages of my own design. The messages the debugger
(and OS) pop up can be your friends...
Tom
"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@flounder.com> wrote in message
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It's one of the things I teach my students...make any odd
resource-name-change, and
Rebuild All is the best and safest approach to the next build.
I wonder if some of the people looking at these error boxes actually
bother to *read* the
text. Do they really think the *buttons* carry all the important
information? Admittedly,
sometimes the text is not entirely obvious to a novice, but that's why
they're asking the
question here. If they give the text, then we can explain "When you see
that message it
means..." and they might actually *learn* something. But apparently when
anything happens
that pops up a MessageBox, their brains shut down and all they can think
to do is dismiss
the MessageBox without actually reading it, usually by clicking the
"abort" button. This
is not a constructive approach to debugging. And it is not a practical
approach to asking
for help. The question which can be summed up in its entirety as "my
program doesn't
work, what did I do wrong?" deserves whatever scorn can be heaped on it.
joe
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