Friday, August 31, 2007

Emacs abort dialog

Emacs is a popular text editor, but it can crash:

Emacs crash dialog
Personally, I don't think that an average user, who use it to edit text or scripts, will start the gdb (GNU Debugger) and examine the disassembled code to check why is it crashed. (Unfortunately I also could not do it because gdb was not installed to my computer).

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Groupwise appointment

Try to create an appointment:

Groupwise appointmentIf you try to specify the start date, a nice feature can be seen:

Groupwise appointment
Under the calendar control text labels will be slurped.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Friendly dropdown list

QNX is a realtime operating system for embedded systems. A SQL query is also embedded into their registration form:
QNX registration form with SQL query

System restart

Visual Studio 6.0 restarts your computer no matter what you want.

System restart by Visual Studio 6.0
Thanks Gusty for this screen.

Monday, August 27, 2007

Installing Nero 7 Preminum

Just three languages on one screen. Mixing English and Hungarian is usual, but German was a surprise.

Nero 7 - Multilingual install: English, German and Hungarian
Thanks to Peter Beke for the screenshot.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Raiffeisen Online

About one month ago the Hungarian Raiffeisen Online for had only one "Submit" button to finish an operation, but they tired to improve the user interface by adding some more buttons. My friend, Drifter sent me some screenshoots about the result of this development:

Raiffeisen Online
And an other one:

Raiffeisen Online
Which button would you like to choose?

Friday, August 10, 2007

Visual Studio Messages

If reporting services extension is installed to your Visual Studio, sometimes you will get the following NullReferenceException message:



Access failure:
Programmers should know what this message is:
Visual Basic compiler is unable to recover:



And finally, a catastrophic failure:

Unable to step. Operation not supported.

Debugging is one of the key feature of the Visual Studio. "Step over" or "step into" a function is the usual way to check what is happening inside a program. But sometimes this feature is not supported.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Cancel in SQL Management Studio

Unfortunately, this message appeared in Hungarian language, however the English version of SQL Management studio was installed to my computer. It has the following meaning: "The user chosen the cancel option inside the saving dialog."


This is the most unimportant message what I ever seen.

Skype vs clipboard

Nowadays, using the clipboard is an everyday routine, but exceptions are happened:Cannot open clipboard.

Editing large scripts with Sql Management studio

Sometimes it is required to manage large SQL scripts, especially if you want to migrate data by hand. Let's see how it is look like with Microsoft Sql Management Studio:

I had the SQL script and opened using the file open function. I wanted to reorganize the file using the copy/past feature, when this dialog appeared:

You are attempting to copy more than 194049 lines to the Clipboard. This may decrease performance. "You are attempting to copy more than 194049 lines to the Clipboard. This may decrease performance." 194049 lines didn't seem to a large amount of data (in the end of 2006).

Anyway I was able to copy/paste, but it was terribly slow. After the modifying the file I also wanted to run it:

Insufficent memory to continue the execution of the program.The memory was not enough, my PC had 1 GB. Check the details of the exception, it was a usual .Net stack trace:
System.OutOfMemoryExceptionFinally, I manged to execute the script in multiple smaller parts, but after I wanted to save it:

The operation could not be completed. Not enough memory."The operation could not be completed. Not enough memory." - at least the second part of the error message was translated to Hungarian.

Catastrophic failure

An informative message box about a serious error:

Catastrophic failure
Thanks to Peter Beke for the screen shot.

Oracle error message in SqlNavigator

stringstringstringstringstringstringQuest's SQLNavigator displays error messages almost perfectly. Stringstringstringstringstring object is not bad.

Save during build

Saving files during a build is dangerous and may result in incorrect bouild outputs in the future
Logical, but a bit funny...

Groupwise setup

Installing the famous mail client of Novell:

GroupWise setup: 102%Good worker... more than 100%...

Thanks to Peter Beke for the screen shot.

Enterprise Library Setup

Microsoft Enterprise Library "proven practices for predictable results" - says it's homepage, let's install it:

Time remaning: 0 secondsThe first "proven practice" is the synchronized progress bar and time remaining. Promising product...

Visual studio modal dialog

Microsoft Visual Studio cannot shut down because a modal dialog is active.
Modal dialogs should be on the top of the main window. (or not??)