>> What do you developers think about changing all of the informative
>> user messages that currently come out of the WWW library into some
>> sort of standard user_message call.
>>
>I think that this is a great idea, especially in GUI environment
where
>printf does not really work. The error messages are scattered
>all throughout the code, which makes them hard to modify for a
>particular platform. What I would also like to do is give user the
>opportunity to correct an error.
>
Agreed. The module of user interface messages is already there in
fact, ready to be overridden in the GUI case. It is HTAlert and
is described in
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Library/Implementation/HTAlert.html
There is now a link to this (to and) from the internals page.
Routines are
HTAlert, (warning)
HTPrompt, (user input)
HTProgress, (informational)
HTConfirm (message, OK/Cancel response)
>This would give programs that use the library flexibility we need so
>that we do not hack the insides of its code.
Precicely. The problem is, not all the libwww code uses these
routines at the moment.
>Aleks
Tim