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noleli2
2004-08-05, 14:19
Has anyone ever seen this before? It was in place of the "This application has unexpectedly quit" box.

http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~nliebman/dialogebox.jpg
Ebby
2004-08-05, 14:52
How'd u get it?
Luca
2004-08-05, 14:53
Uh, that IS the "unexpectedly quit" box. Apparently it thinks that the application that was running is named "ough a period...or casting o."

Weird. What application is it?
usurp
2004-08-05, 14:53
what application quit on u?
noleli2
2004-08-05, 15:07
Uh, that IS the "unexpectedly quit" box. Apparently it thinks that the application that was running is named "ough a period...or casting o."

Weird. What application is it?
Ah! It is indeed. It was XFactor, by the way. It was very clever on their part, though.
autodata
2004-08-05, 15:13
Here's the article that the text came from:

http://ubl.artistdirect.com/music/artist/bio/0,,484335,00.html?artist=Paul+Revere+%26+the+Raide rs
Brad
2004-08-05, 15:25
Yeah, this is really easy to do. I just wrote a quick program that crashes with a message you might not expect.

Watch this:

Crashing the "Really cool program!" app (http://brad.project-think.com/movies/custom-crasher.mov) (only 108 KB)
murbot
2004-08-05, 15:36
:lol:

Stop it. You're burninating me.

:D
Wrao
2004-08-05, 19:25
nice :cool:
Brad
2004-08-05, 19:39
On a related note, this ordeal reminds me of another old error I took a snapshot from TextEdit ages ago:

http://brad.project-think.com/images-3/TextEditSnap002.png

That is from TextEdit; I just had put a different icon on the app at the time. It's still reproducible in 10.3. :)
Brad
2004-08-05, 19:45
See? :)

http://brad.project-think.com/images-3/TextEditSnap003.png
thuh Freak
2004-08-05, 22:19
i try to put funny error messages into all my programs. i don't really know if they come out funny, but in me head they is. my favorite one to do is: "[application name] could not open the requested file. why the fuck did you corrupt it?" in my vast and overwhelming experience, users enjoy being incompetant and having their idiocy pointed out to them; especially when its my fault. other times i ask the user to join hands with their coworkers beside them, and mourn the unexpected quit which the program is about to endure. at which point, they bow their heads in silent prayer.