As a user, I always would like every message box to be
copyable, so that any time I want to ask about anything, I
can copy the text to quote -- or if I want to search for
docs or discussion on the message box.
(I wish Microsoft would fix the platform implementation of
message box, to be always copyable and always scrollable, so
we application developers wouldn't have to, but they never
seem to do so.)
Is there ever a reason for a message box not to be copyable?
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Altho, it's almost as useful to the user if they can just
turn on a log which captures all errors -- and we're going
to need that (if we haven't it already) to handle errors
from plugins during directory scans. A copyable message box
has the one advantage that you don't have to turn on logging
ahead of time, but it somewhat loses that advantage if you
don't know the msgbox is copyable until later -- this patch
doesn't provide any visual clue that it is copyable.
(Altho for myself, I'd prefer to have copyable & scrollable
msg boxes AND an optional log.)
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Good points. I am mainly concerned if this does change the
look of messagebox? As editbox in Win32 usually is sunken
and that would look weird. But if there is no visible change
like sunken frame etc then this is fine.
I remember seeing something similar in another program, but
I cannot remember which program it was.
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I can't tell the difference visually, unless I select some
of the message text -- this is kind of the downside as well,
as the user has no way to know the text is selectable &
copyable. Anyway, attaching screenshots so you can see --
there might be something I'm not seeing, as I've not
compared them side-by-side.
I did have to add 10 pixels to the width calculation -- I
dunno why, but I need some more pixels when I changed it to
an edit control instead of a label.
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Since I have no personal interest in this patch, and most
other Windows programs don't have this kind of messageboxex
I'm putting this to lowest priority and Later resolution.
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Not sure where and why you'd need this?
Certainly most informative messageboxes don't need this.
Maybe a new flag to use edit control so it can be used only
when needed?
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As a user, I always would like every message box to be
copyable, so that any time I want to ask about anything, I
can copy the text to quote -- or if I want to search for
docs or discussion on the message box.
(I wish Microsoft would fix the platform implementation of
message box, to be always copyable and always scrollable, so
we application developers wouldn't have to, but they never
seem to do so.)
Is there ever a reason for a message box not to be copyable?
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Oh, this is also good for translation bug reports & bug
reports in general.
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Altho, it's almost as useful to the user if they can just
turn on a log which captures all errors -- and we're going
to need that (if we haven't it already) to handle errors
from plugins during directory scans. A copyable message box
has the one advantage that you don't have to turn on logging
ahead of time, but it somewhat loses that advantage if you
don't know the msgbox is copyable until later -- this patch
doesn't provide any visual clue that it is copyable.
(Altho for myself, I'd prefer to have copyable & scrollable
msg boxes AND an optional log.)
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Good points. I am mainly concerned if this does change the
look of messagebox? As editbox in Win32 usually is sunken
and that would look weird. But if there is no visible change
like sunken frame etc then this is fine.
I remember seeing something similar in another program, but
I cannot remember which program it was.
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I can't tell the difference visually, unless I select some
of the message text -- this is kind of the downside as well,
as the user has no way to know the text is selectable &
copyable. Anyway, attaching screenshots so you can see --
there might be something I'm not seeing, as I've not
compared them side-by-side.
I did have to add 10 pixels to the width calculation -- I
dunno why, but I need some more pixels when I changed it to
an edit control instead of a label.
Screenshots of regular & with edit box
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Since I have no personal interest in this patch, and most
other Windows programs don't have this kind of messageboxex
I'm putting this to lowest priority and Later resolution.