On Apr 15, 4:08 am, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > > By the way, "popup" is what you get in a web browser. What did this > > "popup" look like: a panel from your GUI software? A Windows message > > box? Did it have a title across the top? What was the exact text in > > the popup/panel/box? Were there any options other than to close the > > window? > > > FYI "xxx has stopped working" is Vista's "user-friendly" way of > reporting what Windows 3 would probably have called a "General Program > Fault".
So I found by googling "has stopped working". I'd never seen such a litany of weeping, wailing and u'\u02ad' before. > It pretty much hides all useful information fro the end-user, > perhaps on the grounds that end users wouldn't know what to do with the > information it *could* provide anyway. Thanks for the info, Steve. Sounds like it's even worse than its predecessor in Windows XP. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
