At 09:29 AM 4/5/2004, you wrote:
I would like to ask for your experience on this problem :

When an app gets an "too technical" error condition, will you display it as
an error code or a descriptive string ?

For example, to connect to a server, it may have different kinds of errors :
no server found, protocol not supported, invalid cert, cert expiration,
timeout, connection made but no reply after that .....

In this case, which one will cause less annoying to the *users* : an error
code, or an explanation ?

In general, I like using the ErrAlert API to show errors for which I cannot handle. That seems to be standard practice for network-based applications, due to the wide variety of errors that can come from that layer.


-- Ben Combee, senior DTS engineer, PalmSource, Inc.
   Read "Combee on Palm OS" at http://palmos.combee.net/



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