John Machin wrote: > 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.
You could say "it sucks" and not be a million miles away. Particularly since Windows Explorer is itself one of the programs that quite frequently "stops working". regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list