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Re: Setup patch: List command line options on stdout
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:
>
> > I haven't tried your patch, but if you make a dialog how about one that
> > you can select and copy the text from, like a simple read-only richedit
> > control? I always hated pop-up dialog boxes that contained vital
> > information with no way to copy it or do anything but look at it. I can
> > see times where you'd want to copy and paste the output, e.g.
> > documentation, mailing list support, etc.
>
> This has little bearing on the current discussion, but did you ever try
> just pressing Ctrl-C while in the dialog box? On Win2k/XP this should
> copy the contents of that dialog box (title bar, buttons, and all) to the
> clipboard (as text). I guess what I'm saying is that the patch above will
> do in a pinch, until we have the time to do it "the right way" (tm). :-)
You're right, that ctrl-C thing does ring a bell, but I've never
actually tried it. It's hardly intuitive though.
Upon looking at the patch again it looks like it also spits the usage
text into the setup log, which I suppose is sufficient. Much better
than having nothing.
Brian