[Bug 5599] New: Make fatal errors display a Windows message box
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Tue Jul 4 14:05:54 CDT 2006
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5599
Summary: Make fatal errors display a Windows message box
Product: Wine
Version: CVS
Platform: PC
OS/Version: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P3
Component: wine-misc
AssignedTo: wine-bugs at winehq.org
ReportedBy: chris.kcat at gmail.com
This is a "feature" I find sorely lacking, especially for people who like
to 'click and pray'. Normally when Wine fails and causes the app to die, it
prints out something to the console then exits. I think it would be really
helpful if it also brought up a message box, so it's a little more direct
about the problem. Things like failing to load a required DLL would benefit,
since even if the console is there, the actual error is not always easilly
readable (there could be multiple errors intermixed with other messages, and
the message has these wierd symbols around the string and has backslashes
doubled up; all making it difficult). It would also help seperate Wine
problems (missing DLLs typically are not) from actual program problems.
It might also be nice to have crash data grabbed from winedbg thrown into a
message box as well (something akin to Windows' infamous illegal operation
error dialog), along with printing to the console.
This would be useful since even apps that are known to work can still crash on
their own accord, through no fault of Wine's. And even if not, it would be
handy having a box pop right up that you can easilly Select All/Copy/Paste
from. Echoing fatal errors from the console to a message box for the user to
see would help move away from requiring a console to monitor output just in
case the program crashes, though they could still be encouraged to use a
console when investigating a problem.
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