State reporting (was: Re: Major FUD (was Re: Add root drive mapping to default config file))

[Gregory M. Turner]

On Thursday 05 June 2003 04:04 am, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > We have that, this is what MESSAGE is meant to do.
>
> OK, cool, I guess routing that into a GUI should be on somebodies mental
> if not marked up todo list.

just another note (hmm, by speaking on this, I fear I am getting dangerously 
close to volunteering): it's probably /not/ cool to use windows API's to 
implement such a GUI -- because the messages could be coming out before core 
GUI dlls are loaded.  I think another poster mentioned the same issue.  So I 
guess it needs to be a pure-x thing...?  Maybe MessageBox is safe, but 
MessageBox seems like a potentially annoying implementation.  Otherwise, 
perhaps its possible to queue premature messages until the neccesary 
essential dll's load up -- of course, this may never occur, resulting in 
eerie silence...  maybe a job for interprocess RPC, since it supports string 
arguments so well ;)

I'd muck around with this, but right now I have cabinet.dll at the top of my 
queue....  maybe soon....

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