RE: [XaraXtreme-dev] Startup problems due to help

["Charles Moir" <CharlesM@xxxxxxxx>]

Is this documented in the Camelot basic guidelines document online? If
not it sounds as if it should be.

Charles

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Bligh
> Sent: 11 July 2006 11:19
> To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Alex Bligh
> Subject: Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Startup problems due to help
> 
> 
> 
> --On 11 July 2006 12:13 +0200 Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > I guess, that happened because InitHelp returned FALSE 
> without setting 
> > the error somewhere. If any initialisation fails, InitKernel calls
> > InformError() without any argument, assuming that the static error 
> > message has been set by the component that failed to initialise. It 
> > might be a good idea to set this to some generic error 
> message at the 
> > beginning to cover that case - everything would be better 
> than having 
> > an empty error box. As development continues it is well 
> possible that 
> > this can happen again because it is difficult to enforce an 
> interface 
> > like "you may only return FALSE from an initialisation 
> routine if you 
> > have set the static error".
> 
> It's a pretty standard Camelot rule that if a function is 
> documented as returning false for an error, you HAVE to have 
> set the error. Not doing so is very naughty! (that's what the 
> ERRORxxx macros do).
> 
> Alex
>