Cross-Platform MessageBox API for Error Reporting #2665
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I use osdialog for that. Does the job fine. |
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I think using an external library would be better than GLFW, which tries to keep to a minimal set of APIs. |
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Ok that's a bit sad, since you will always require such a library if you use GLFW in a cross-platform way. Well, unless you write the needed code yourself, ofcourse. Or maybe I am missing some obvious way to notify users on startup that GLFW window creation has failed... p.s.: I think SDL has this for that purpose: https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/SDL_ShowSimpleMessageBox |
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It would be nice to have a GLFW API abstracting over the lowest common denominator of
MessageBox(Win32) andNSAlert(Mac OS X) in order to show some error message to the user before exiting. I do not know what the equivalent ofMessageBoxwould be on Linux.This would be used when the creation of the OpenGL context fails, or when critical startup resources (fonts, etc.) are missing that prevent the startup error from being shown in OpenGL itself.
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