py2exe, program has stoped working!?

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Mon Apr 14 17:27:27 EDT 2008


On Apr 15, 4:08 am, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
>
> > By the way, "popup" is what you get in a web browser. What did this
> > "popup" look like: a panel from your GUI software? A Windows message
> > box? Did it have a title across the top? What was the exact text in
> > the popup/panel/box? Were there any options other than to close the
> > window?
>
>
> FYI "xxx has stopped working" is Vista's "user-friendly" way of
> reporting what Windows 3 would probably have called a "General Program
> Fault".

So I found by googling "has stopped working". I'd never seen such a
litany of weeping, wailing and u'\u02ad' before.

> It pretty much hides all useful information fro the end-user,
> perhaps on the grounds that end users wouldn't know what to do with the
> information it *could* provide anyway.

Thanks for the info, Steve. Sounds like it's even worse than its
predecessor in Windows XP.

Cheers,
John



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