On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:38:27AM +0100, Alexandre Julliard wrote: > Mike McCormack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think this is a classic case of forcing programmer indecision on the > > user. Most users will not be able to answer such a question properly, > > so they'll end up clicking yes anyway. > > > > Microsoft has done the correct thing by not forcing this on the > > user. If the question can't be answered automatically, the default > > should be what works for everything. > > My impression from reading MSDN is that Windows pops up a message box > too, but I don't have a way of confirming this. And I'm not convinced > that "make everything work and ignore security" is the right default, > we all know how well this worked for Windows.
I tried the XnView example on my Windows XP and it just started the program without any questions or messageboxes. Ciao, Marcus