Vital information for anyone debugging setup.exe

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Wed Apr 20 09:06:00 GMT 2005


----Original Message----
>From: Brian Dessent
>Sent: 20 April 2005 06:29

> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>>   It would probably be easier simpler and quicker to find the messagebox
>> call in the insight source (most of which is just tcl/tk scripting after
>> all) and comment it out.
> 
> Perhaps you missed my other reply:
> 
>> Heh, you noticed that too... I googled for a way to disable the popups,
>> but found nothing.  I just comment out the OutputDebugString() call in
>> msg() when using insight.
> 
> Comment out that one line and they're gone...
> 
> Brian


  Nope, I saw that, but I wanted to fix insight rather than setup, because
otherwise it's gonna happen again with some other piece of software... I'm
in the habit of using loadsa debug messages and logging them with dbgview or
similar, and I don't want to accidentally window-bomb myself again sometime
in the future.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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