Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!c152-cb From: c152-cb@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Vince Lee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: What I'd like to see in 1.4 Keywords: System requesters, bootable disks Message-ID: <10196@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 22 Feb 89 04:57:11 GMT References: <1984@daimi.dk> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: c152-cb@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Vince Lee) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 16 In article <1984@daimi.dk> hrc@daimi.dk (Henrik Raeder Clausen) writes: >I'd like in 1.4 to have the System Requesters tell the user what file >some program is looking for (like devs:disk-validator). This would be a This really doesn't make any sense. It's really the program's responsibility to inform you what files it can't find. Some programs check for files in several locations. It would be REAL annoying to get a requester every time you mistype a command and your shell program searches thru its whole path for "Assing." The requesters that come up for "insert volume XXX" are different b/c the amiga is multitasking and lets you change disks whenever you want. I think more programmers would be willing to put error messages in their programs if there were a simple ShowMessage(window,string) command included in K/S. This isn't a lot of code, but for small programs, setting up Intuitext structures is too annoying.