On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Pedro Alves wrote: > Bengt-Arne Fjellner wrote: > > > Well in my opinion It could even be better to have an unchecked checkbox > > like: > > > > Wrong MD5 sum detected. > > This package look broken. Try another mirror. > > ( ) Yes I Really want to install this even if it looks broken. > > > > OK > > > > Or something like that. Then its two clicks or several keystrokes before > > one can continue. > > yes, and having something like: > > are you sure <yes|no> > > (user clicks yes) > > are you really sure? <yes|no> > > (user clicks yes again) > > are you really, really sure? <yes|no> > > ... also makes it several clicks.
Indeed. > The best solution, would be to replace the yes/no buttons with > verbs/actions, like skip/'install anyway'/abort. > I haven't looked at the code, but it is probably using > MessageBox(Ex), which doesn't allow that. Coding an extended messagebox > isn't *that* hard, but, it is still work that takes motivation to do. Yes, the code does use MessageBox. However, there already exists, in fact, a bit of code implementing a custom MessageBox (or, rather, overriding the button labels) for the "Retry on in-use files" functionality. Interested parties should look at lines 181-217 of install.cc (which adds an MB_RETRYCONTINUE message box type). > The second best, and quickest, would be for a patch to show up > implementing Thorsten's suggestion that cfg pointed out. > Until someone steps up to do the work, this discussion is just going > to fade out and die. That is exactly the right approach. <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC> drives the open-source world more than anything else. So, any volunteers? There isn't even a need to fill out a copyright assignment for setup contributions... Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. -- Frank Herbert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
