On 7/9/11, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
I don't believe it is possible to copy and paste the text from many error message popups (I am pretty certain you can't from a standard
Of course, for those cases, I understand perfectly why somebody would opt to take a screenshot. In the cases that left me stunned, the errors are usually displayed within a selectable text area such as a webpage or ironically now that you've reminded me, an email itself when complaining about email "errors".
For some reason, they didn't think they could copy/paste the text in the email headers just because it took an extra step to get the email client to display it.
window and send that. I guess far too many people have been trained away from textual interactions with a computer -- they only understand *graphical* interaction with a computer.
I guess you are right about that. But what's really sad is that it is not just the common users as well. I get fresh applicants coming in who claiming to know HTML/.NET on their resume but are hapless if they didn't have an IDE with graphical toolbars full of drag & drop icons for things like a button/link/image.