http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5599
Summary: Make fatal errors display a Windows message box Product: Wine Version: CVS Platform: PC OS/Version: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: enhancement Priority: P3 Component: wine-misc AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: chris.kcat@gmail.com
This is a "feature" I find sorely lacking, especially for people who like to 'click and pray'. Normally when Wine fails and causes the app to die, it prints out something to the console then exits. I think it would be really helpful if it also brought up a message box, so it's a little more direct about the problem. Things like failing to load a required DLL would benefit, since even if the console is there, the actual error is not always easilly readable (there could be multiple errors intermixed with other messages, and the message has these wierd symbols around the string and has backslashes doubled up; all making it difficult). It would also help seperate Wine problems (missing DLLs typically are not) from actual program problems.
It might also be nice to have crash data grabbed from winedbg thrown into a message box as well (something akin to Windows' infamous illegal operation error dialog), along with printing to the console.
This would be useful since even apps that are known to work can still crash on their own accord, through no fault of Wine's. And even if not, it would be handy having a box pop right up that you can easilly Select All/Copy/Paste from. Echoing fatal errors from the console to a message box for the user to see would help move away from requiring a console to monitor output just in case the program crashes, though they could still be encouraged to use a console when investigating a problem.