Hello MaXxX,
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:05:09 +0100GMT (04/01/2001, 14:05 +0800GMT),
MaXxX wrote:
PH>> - click on one of the previously marked messages. The "normal"
PH>> behaviour in a windows environment is to UNselect all messages at
PH>> this time. TB does not unselect anything.
M> Not confirmed: clicking a message makes it the only selected one, unselecting
M> all others.
I confirm that I cannot confirm this. Clicking on one message after
having selected "many" will indeed unselect "many", and only the one
last clicked is selected.
M> Confirmed, but in some other way.
M> 1) select over 100 messages
M> 2) aim at your keypad's "Del" key, but hit the gray "Enter" by mistake
M> 3) now Bat! opens 100 new windows, completely eating all resources and making
M> W98nonSE hang
I did this, and Win98 didn't hang. Instead, after well over ten, maybe
twenty, messages were opened, TB crashed (not Windows) and it was
reported that THEBAT caused a GPF in module "unkown" at 0000:02aa6e1d.
(What does TB do in 0000: anyway?)
I hit the C button, what choice did I have, thus closing TB. Then I
restarted TB, and no problem; no need to even restart Windows.
M> My solution is that Bat! should warn the user if they're trying to open more
M> than 30 messages at once, like, "WARNING! Opening this many messages might
M> crash your system! Do you really know what you're doing?"
If he hits NO, it means he doesn't know what he's doing, so the
command will be cancelled. If he hits YES, he knows what he is doing,
so a pop-up window should say "Crashing System" with an OK? button to
hit. A cancel button will not be necessary, as that would be boring.
PH>> Solution: Stop opening the messages if the user presses ESC - and close
PH>> all previously opened messages, if he presses ESC twice while TB is
PH>> reading the messages.
M> And this would be a nice addition, too.
While I have never mistakenly opened "too many" messages, I do agree
that the process should be cancelable, very much like purge, where
this option is also missing.
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Cheers,
Thomas.
Message reply created with The Bat! 1.48g under Chinese Windows 98
4.10 Build 1998 with a Pentium II/350 MHz.
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