"Stephen Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Tracy McKibben wrote: > > > Analog is a console application and will not run properly by > > double-clicking on the icon. Open a command window, CD to the > > Analog directory, and run analog.exe from there. > > Sorry, but that's not so. It will work perfectly well by double- > clicking the icon. The only thing is that you will miss the warning > and error messages. So for debugging, it is indeed better to use > the second method.
I'm afraid I'd have to quibble with you on that, Stephen. For people like Frank Conte and Debra Belo, Analog doesn't appear to "run properly" when they double click on the icon, in the sense that it doesn't generate the output that they expect, and effectively doesn't display any useful information about why it's "not working". It doesn't matter that Analog is actually working as designed if people can't figure out how to use it. I don't know what proportion of people who try Analog on Windows get it to work first time simply by double clicking on the icon, but there are obviously some people for whom the default behaviour doesn't work. I don't know what the best way to improve this would be: a few lines of explanation in the analog.cfg, a more explicit discussion of the issue in startpc.html, a batch file in the Windows distribution that included a "pause" command, or even a windows .pif file. Perhaps the people who have encountered this problem can comment? Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
