Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Startup problems due to help

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On 11 July 2006 12:13 +0200 Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> I guess, that happened because InitHelp returned FALSE without setting
> the error somewhere. If any initialisation fails, InitKernel calls
> InformError() without any argument, assuming that the static error
> message has been set by the component that failed to initialise. It
> might be a good idea to set this to some generic error message at the
> beginning to cover that case - everything would be better than having
> an empty error box. As development continues it is well possible that
> this can happen again because it is difficult to enforce an interface
> like "you may only return FALSE from an initialisation routine if you
> have set the static error".

It's a pretty standard Camelot rule that if a function is documented
as returning false for an error, you HAVE to have set the error. Not
doing so is very naughty! (that's what the ERRORxxx macros do).

Alex