On 7/9/11, Robert Heller <heller at 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.