Thanks to the guy at Microsoft
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who decided it would be CRAZY if I could select or otherwise make copies of text in error messages shown with a message box.
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Yeah that drives me crazy too! I wonder if they have a way to turn on the camera on your laptop and some guy watching it calls his buddy; Joe this guy he got the #2892345 error code lets see what he does, Come here quick look at this guy banging his head against the table.
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who decided it would be CRAZY if I could select or otherwise make copies of text in error messages shown with a message box.
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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Yeah that drives me crazy too! I wonder if they have a way to turn on the camera on your laptop and some guy watching it calls his buddy; Joe this guy he got the #2892345 error code lets see what he does, Come here quick look at this guy banging his head against the table.
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Relax...We're all crazy it's not a competition!
Except it's usually the #592982359058912847987923$sdj32 error.
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Except it's usually the #592982359058912847987923$sdj32 error.
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Christian Graus wrote:
#592982359058912847987923$sdj32 error
Ah, you got Ctrl-C to work!! :laugh:
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who decided it would be CRAZY if I could select or otherwise make copies of text in error messages shown with a message box.
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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Except it's usually the #592982359058912847987923$sdj32 error.
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
:laugh: Ain't that the truth.
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension Relax...We're all crazy it's not a competition!
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who decided it would be CRAZY if I could select or otherwise make copies of text in error messages shown with a message box.
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
Alt-PrintScreen Paste into EverNote Wait for it to OCR... Yah - you're right - it definately sucks!
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who decided it would be CRAZY if I could select or otherwise make copies of text in error messages shown with a message box.
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
If only there were somebody here who knew how to write a program that would use the mouse position to inspect the text value of any control on any window when some key combination was pressed, allowing the user to copy it to the clipboard. It would have to be somebody familiar with working with Windows Forms and Windows programming. Darn, where would we even start looking for somebody like that? Oh well, I give up. A real shame too, would be really nifty if something like that were possible. Darn. Just, darn. :rolleyes:
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If only there were somebody here who knew how to write a program that would use the mouse position to inspect the text value of any control on any window when some key combination was pressed, allowing the user to copy it to the clipboard. It would have to be somebody familiar with working with Windows Forms and Windows programming. Darn, where would we even start looking for somebody like that? Oh well, I give up. A real shame too, would be really nifty if something like that were possible. Darn. Just, darn. :rolleyes:
That's a pretty decent idea, you could do all that with Win32 calls.
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That's a pretty decent idea, you could do all that with Win32 calls.
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
FYI, I just tried Spy++. It works perfectly. :-D You just drag a scope-thingy over the text, and it gives you a textbox with the text that can be copied.
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who decided it would be CRAZY if I could select or otherwise make copies of text in error messages shown with a message box.
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
Works on 99% of messageboxes.Shift-Ctrl-C to copy messageboxes/errors ... Example from a messagebox in IE. --------------------------- Message from webpage --------------------------- You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to .... --------------------------- OK --------------------------- That was an alert in IE ...
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who decided it would be CRAZY if I could select or otherwise make copies of text in error messages shown with a message box.
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
And why is it always in the middle of the screen? Why does it expand to fit it's content, even if that is too big for the screen? :mad: These are reasons I wrote this tip: ErrorMessageBox: an improved MessageBox for error reports[^] - so at least my errors could be copy'n'pasted to an email... :sigh:
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who decided it would be CRAZY if I could select or otherwise make copies of text in error messages shown with a message box.
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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You can try debugging it will get you the error text
My Name in English[^] Translation done By OriginalGriff
Interestingly, I didn't write all of the programs I run :-)
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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Interestingly, I didn't write all of the programs I run :-)
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
You beat me to the punch with that answer.
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You can sometimes select the error box and hit Ctl+c then paste to notepad. Does not always work though.
That's the best tip ever!
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who decided it would be CRAZY if I could select or otherwise make copies of text in error messages shown with a message box.
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
Actually, you're wrong on that one. on ANY native windows dialog (does not work if the developer used a window with a label on it, it must be a dialog) you can just select the dialog (i.e.: by clicking on the title bar) and then press ctrl+c, that will copy the entire window text (including title and buttons). you can then paste it on notepad and select just the bit you want. the only problem is that it's becoming each time rarer to find native windows dialogs, because developers think they can do better, but most of the windows error messages still are shown on those dialogs.
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Except it's usually the #592982359058912847987923$sdj32 error.
Christian Graus My new article series is all about SQL !!!
Jeez man, don't you know you're error codes yet? That's just the firzby is missing or misconfigured, the 86 character base64 code in the message should clearly tell what is missing.
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And why is it always in the middle of the screen? Why does it expand to fit it's content, even if that is too big for the screen? :mad: These are reasons I wrote this tip: ErrorMessageBox: an improved MessageBox for error reports[^] - so at least my errors could be copy'n'pasted to an email... :sigh:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
Handy piece of code - I may take it a step or two further so I can optionally set the size of the Form, have more than 3 buttons etc when calling Show. :thumbsup:
Dave
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Interestingly, I didn't write all of the programs I run :-)
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