Re: 1.0 idea - ntdll - add a messagebox for missing dlls

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Steven Edwards"  writes:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Alexandre Julliard  wrote:
> > You certainly don't want to call through explorer for that, showing a
> >  message box directly is fine. You have to be careful to only do it when
> >  loading the main exe, not for any random dll load; also you have to
> >  properly handle the case of a missing X display.
>
> OK so is doing this in ntdll even the right case? I don't really see
> where to do it only from the main exe.

It depends which cases you are trying to catch, but for the case of
users starting an app from their desktop, you could probably do it in
start.exe.