RE: [Algorithms] Can I do this?

[Giovanni B. <ba...@pr...>]

apart "moral" aspects, can someone confirm that an application can shutdown
(via WM_QUIT) other apps running under Win2K?
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Giovanni Bajo
Lead Programmer

Protonic Interactive
www.protonic.net

a brand of Prograph Research S.r.l.
www.prograph.it


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gda...@li...
> [mailto:gda...@li...]On Behalf Of jason
> watkins
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 10:46 PM
> To: gda...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Algorithms] Can I do this?
>
>
> Bad.. bad.. bad..
>
> you quickly need to get out of the frame of mind that you and your program
> know what to do better than the user. the role of your program is to be
> subserviant to the users wishes and demands.
>
> picture this.. I'm a 28.8k modem user, downloaded the lastest 250+meg demo
> in the background.. I fire up your game to pass the time, since
> the download
> will take all day. Your game spots my "save as" as a resource hog
> because it
> keeps doing lots of GDI stuff to make the little animation go on,
> and so on.
> So, it sends a WM_QUIT to it, and my Save As prompted dies,
> leaving me with
> nothing to show for the last 5 hours my download ran.
>
> at this point, i'd do 3 things: uninstall your game, tell every website in
> the universe just how crappy it is, and then research the feasability of
> comming and killing you. after all, I could accomplish all that
> in less time
> than it'll take me to redownload 1/2 of that danged demo.
>
> now, as for things useful.. what you *can* do is inform the
> user.. if you're
> really worried about the situation, throw up a error or a simple notices
> that says "it appears system resources are low due to many background
> applications. please close some of them and running mygame.exe again for
> better performance."
>
> then the user knows what's going on, and can make the call.
>
>
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