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RE: Vital information for anyone debugging setup.exe


----Original Message----
>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: 19 April 2005 22:27

> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>> [snip]
>>   Debug messages just don't belong in dialog boxes.
> 
> That from a person who put MessageBox'es all over the place in his earlier
> setup patch? ];->
> 	Igor



  Ummmm..... no!  Those weren't messageboxes!  They were..... erm...
BREAKPOINTS!  Yes, that's it, they're just a simplified kind of breakpoint.
A way of getting the control flow to pause when and if it reaches a certain
point in the code.  Yes, that's it.  


  Say.  Why is it that you always see message boxes saying things like
"Fatal unrecoverable error, all data lost - Click 'OK' to continue"?

  Why don't they say "Fatal unrecoverable error, all data lost - Click 'No
way is this OK' to continue?"

    cheers,
      DaveK
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