From kde-core-devel  Wed Aug 29 07:56:28 2001
From: Martijn Klingens <mklingens () yahoo ! com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 07:56:28 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Sugestion: KStdErrorMessages
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99907182920613

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 08:20:04PM +0200, Martijn Klingens wrote:
>
> > So a class KError might be useful, with additional static StdErrors.
>
> Maybe a class that could be cast to a QString (and provide an
> internationalized error message) and compared to an integer or enum (i.e.
> if kerr == KDE_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND.  Hmm.

I don't know if that solves the problem of being able to report errors 
without messagebox. I think there should be an error handler that can be 
specified with a default implementation that shows a messagebox, but can be 
overridden in an app. My initial thought of KNotify is not that good 
actually, because errors are often interactive (yes/no, ok/cancel, etc.). Any 
ideas on how to improve this? 

Shell scripts using DCOP need a way to interact with message boxes as well, 
so it must be standardized somewhere. But how? And where?

> Either way some sort of mapping errors to consistant strings is a good
> thing as it promotes uniformity.

Indeed.

Martijn