Oops, I'm getting old, thanks for the REPLY of course not the answer.

Arno Garrels

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arno Garrels" <arno.garrels@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] How to stop multi language error messages?


> Paul,
>
> Thousand thanks for your very detailed answer.:-)
>
> What do you think about just passing the first line of an error message to
> the user, would it always give a unique hint of what went wrong?
> I'm using D4 and therefor I cannot pass/share long strings across threads.
>
> Arno Garrels
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Vinkenoog" <paulvink@...>
> To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 2:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [IBO] How to stop multi language error messages?
>
>
> > Hi Arno,
> >
> > > Currently a German translation is appended to English messages:
> > >
> > > ISC ERROR MESSAGE:
> > > Unable to complete network request to host "192.168.1.100".
> > > Failed to establish a connection.
> > > -->??Es konnte keine Verbindung hergestellt werden, da der
> > > Zielcomputer....
> > >
> > > Where does it come from?
> >
> > Looks like it comes from Germany ;-)
> >
> > But without kidding: Firebird sometimes passes the OS error message on
> > to the user. The good thing is that this gives you more information
> > about what went wrong. E.g. in the above case, the OS message tells
> > the user _why_ the connection couldn't be made.
> > The downside is that it may look a bit silly.
> >
> > My applications are mostly in Dutch. If a catch an IB_Error I often
> > give the user a Dutch message, followed by an empty line, followed by
> > the IB_Error.Message
> >
> > I also translated IB_Constants.pas so my IBObjects speak Dutch, but
> > IBO often passes on the FB error message, which is in English, and which
> > in turn may pass on an OS message an any old language.
> >
> > Although this hodgepodge of languages in what the end user sees as one
> > message may be confusing, I still prefer it to losing information. Now
> > if they call me I ask them to read the message, and nine times out of
> > ten I can tell them immediately what went wrong, and how to solve the
> > problem.
> >
> > Of course you can also scan the message for ISC error codes and
> > produce your own customized messages for certain situations.
> >
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Paul Vinkenoog
> >
> >
> >
> >
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