On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote:
You certainly don't want to call through explorer for that, showing a message box directly is fine.
Well, that's easier :-)
You have to be careful to only do it when loading the main exe, not for any random dll load
Yeah, I guess some apps tolerate missing DLLs by loading them manually. We'll miss a few problems (e.g. apps that delay-load but can't handle the missing dll) but that's ok.
also you have to properly handle the case of a missing X display
right, and just not call MessageBox.
Hmm, ideally we would send them to a web page that gave information tailored to the dll in question, but a MessageBox is good enough for 1.0.
A link to a wiki page (http://wiki.winehq/MissingDLL ?) with list of
common dlls/where they come from/what they do/how to use winetricks/etc.) would be a bit easier/quicker to implement.