Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: > > > I haven't tried your patch, but if you make a dialog how about one that > > you can select and copy the text from, like a simple read-only richedit > > control? I always hated pop-up dialog boxes that contained vital > > information with no way to copy it or do anything but look at it. I can > > see times where you'd want to copy and paste the output, e.g. > > documentation, mailing list support, etc. > > This has little bearing on the current discussion, but did you ever try > just pressing Ctrl-C while in the dialog box? On Win2k/XP this should > copy the contents of that dialog box (title bar, buttons, and all) to the > clipboard (as text). I guess what I'm saying is that the patch above will > do in a pinch, until we have the time to do it "the right way" (tm). :-)
You're right, that ctrl-C thing does ring a bell, but I've never actually tried it. It's hardly intuitive though. Upon looking at the patch again it looks like it also spits the usage text into the setup log, which I suppose is sufficient. Much better than having nothing. Brian
