Charm: throwback problem

If I set Charm’s error behaviour to “throwback”, and an error is encountered, a “Throwback” button appear in the error window besides the usual “Edit” one. However, if I click on it, I get an error dialog “the application has gone wrong”.and when I click on details I get:

SWI &42587 not known

Happens with either StrongEd orZap. The editor is running st the time.

SWI &42587 not known

Ah, been caught by that. That’s a SWI in the DDEUtils module.
Add this to the !Run file for Charm:
RMEnsure DDEUtils 0.00 RMLoad System:Modules.DDEUtils

Any application wabting use that kind of throwback would need the DDEUtils so it might be useful to pop it into an obey file in !Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks (or similar) instead.

Edit: Thinking about it, would it be more useful for users as a system default to have it loaded?
Old lags have the experience new users get a cryptic SWI error…

Since the vast majority of SWIs are publicly documented, it’s a great pity that the error isn’t

SWI &42587 not known (DDEUtils not loaded)

A very simple and small module could do that, and its database wouldn’t need updating often.

I couldn’t agree more (with nemo) – and since the SWI allocations lie with ROOL, it would make sense for the module to be part of the build process and draw from all the publicly documented SWI bases. If ROOL could make the format of the allocations database public knowledge, someone could write this module without having to have access to the potentially commercially sensitive information itself (cough!)…

I wrote a module that converted error reports into Haiku long ago. Here’s a bit of its Messages file:

100A9:Three things are certain:/Death, taxes, and the Bad Map./Guess which has occurred.
100B3:A directory,/So numerous its contents,/No more can it take.
100B4:This unwanted thing,/Though so loathsome to your eyes,/is not yet empty.
100C6:So many nice things,/And all of them stored in here,/The disc is now full.
100D5:You step in the stream,/But the water has moved on./This disc is not here.
100D6:With searching comes loss./And the presence of absence:/This file is not found.
100E1:Out of memory./We wish to hold the whole sky,/But we never will.
108C3:You forget yourself:/To prevent future regret/You have locked this file.

A gentler time. ;-)

‘HaikuError’ was about 1K. ‘SWIError’ would be even less.

A gentler time. ;-)

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You ought to put up some of your various modules/utilities on a website someplace!

HaikuError’ was about 1K

The wife is not into computer stuff and claims to have a personal IT consultant to sort such things.
Your short sample raised first a smile and then a laugh from the wife. I’ve had a bit of a difficult few days running into weeks and that brightened my week.

As Rick says your modules and utilities deserve a more public showing. That module especially.

I am absolutely working on it. Time is the enemy.

Try this: http://goo.gl/NCNzM

Having just stumbled across this thread, I like the idea of mapping unknown SWI errors onto a name string. I suspect something could hang off the TrapError module to achieve this. Of course, it could be just as easy to write something specific – but maybe the TrapError sources would serve as a reference.