On Tuesday 10 December 2002 01:10 am, Jeff Smith wrote:
Can we do something like throw up a message box before loading the debugger, asking if we want to debug? Or perhaps there should be a command-line option to the debugger that presents said dialog, then use that option when starting the debugger in the event of an crash.
Perhaps this can be combined with some of the other ideas to create a reasonable user experience during a failure.
As you surely all know, this is common practice amongst various development environments and IMO wouldn't be a bad idea, at least as an optional (registry-configurable?) thing. Since I set winedbg to pop up in my main terminal, I would be especially pleased by this, since it would allow me to choose which of the ten processes that simultanously crashed I actually want attached to a debugger... there are all kinds of fancy possibilities that immediately come to mind, of course, but talk is cheap.... oh, and another nice thing: this provides feedback for crashes that occur when no terminal is attached (instead of silently disappearing windows).
BTW, who the hell is Dr. Watson, and where can I find him 'cause I would like to beat him to a bloody pulp! ;)