I'll have a play and see what I can come up with. Cheers,
jez. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Linderman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jez White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "guihackers" <perl-win32-gui-hackers@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-hackers] Generic Error handler > Sounds pretty reasonable. For backward compatibility, it should > probably be done as a hook type setting... if the hook is called and > provides an error handler, then the error handler is used, otherwise the > message box gets displayed. And maybe the error handler returns a value > that says whether it handled it or not, and if not, the message box gets > displayed then too. > > Of course, a nicer enhancement would be if the error messages were more > directly related to the error that occurred. A reference to an > undefined value "somewhere" in an XS function call is less useful than > one that would pinpoint the variable of interest, and the line of code. > Maybe such enhancements are impossible, but I know from experience > that eliminating a couple such references from Win32::GUI was like > looking for a needle in a haystack. > > On approximately 12/20/2003 5:53 AM, came the following characters from > the keyboard of Jez White: > > > All, > > > > Would anyone find a generic error handler useful? Instead of win::gui > > displaying the message box when an error occurs it would instead call a > > function passing in the error string. This would allow the application > > to do logging or respond in other ways. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Cheers, > > > > jez. > > > > > > -- > Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/ > =========================== > Like almost everyone, I receive a lot of spam every day, much of it > offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It's ridiculous. > -- Bill Gates > > And here is why it is ridiculous: > The division that includes Windows posted an operating profit of $2.26 > billion on revenue of $2.81 billion. > --from Reuters via > http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/031113/tech_microsoft_msn_1.html > > So that's profit of over 400% of investment... with a bit more > investment in Windows technology, particularly in the area of > reliability, the profit percentage might go down, but so might the bugs > and security problems? Seems like it would be a reasonable tradeoff. > WalMart earnings are 3.4% of investment. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. > Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's > Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. > Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-GUI-Hackers mailing list > Perl-Win32-GUI-Hackers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-hackers
