Re: When presses ENTER on Edit BOX

It's one of the things I teach my students...make any odd resource-name-change, and
Rebuild All is the best and safest approach to the next build.

I wonder if some of the people looking at these error boxes actually bother to *read* the
text. Do they really think the *buttons* carry all the important information? Admittedly,
sometimes the text is not entirely obvious to a novice, but that's why they're asking the
question here. If they give the text, then we can explain "When you see that message it
means..." and they might actually *learn* something. But apparently when anything happens
that pops up a MessageBox, their brains shut down and all they can think to do is dismiss
the MessageBox without actually reading it, usually by clicking the "abort" button. This
is not a constructive approach to debugging. And it is not a practical approach to asking
for help. The question which can be summed up in its entirety as "my program doesn't
work, what did I do wrong?" deserves whatever scorn can be heaped on it.
joe

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 12:18:18 -0700, "Tom Serface" <tserface@xxxxxxx> wrote:

It often doesn't do a "rebuild anything" after a simple change to a
resource. I find that annoying too. I tend to rebuild all whenever I
change any resource name. But... I'm paranoid. Depending on the size of
the project the time to rebuild all is usually less than the time to figure
out what is wrong and then eventually rebuild all anyway.

Tom

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There is no such error. There is ALWAYS an explanation about WHY this
happened. Knowing
you have the generic dialog box doesn't help.

For example, you can have only ONE button with IDOK. It doesn't hurt to
do a "Rebuild
All" after such a change. But to simply tell about some meaningless set
of buttons
without giving the actual error text is not a useful report.
joe

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