Rigs-of-rods: Error handling: more informative crash reports.

Created on 8 Sep 2016 · 6Comments · Source: RigsOfRods/rigs-of-rods

Currently, RoR shows a very raw technical error dialog on crash:
ogreexception---14732089116571435601111

Instead, the dialog should say :

FATAL ERROR

An internal error occured in Rigs of Rods
Technical details below:
Ogre exception blah blah

enhancement

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only-a-ptr

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Let's remove those "you may find help/ URL / open in browser?" features altogether. Those web pages don't exist and we won't create new ones. If the problem is easy to solve, we should tell the player directly in the error message. If not, bummer.

Also, I'd leave only "FATAL ERROR" in the title. The "exception" term is really only meaningful to a developer, and it's already in "technical details below".

only-a-ptr on 15 Sep 2016

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The code for the dialog box can be found here:
http://developer.rigsofrods.org/doxygen/struct_error_utils.html#a03b1f233c5e57c4a7418b1d1ca072343

AnotherFoxGuy on 15 Sep 2016

ror_2016-09-15_09-29-36

Any comments?

AnotherFoxGuy on 15 Sep 2016

Do those wiki pages already exist?

Any comments?

Maybe add an empty line between the first two lines?

ulteq on 15 Sep 2016

Also, I'd leave only "FATAL ERROR" in the title. The "exception" term is really only meaningful to a developer, and it's already in "technical details below".

only-a-ptr on 15 Sep 2016

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Most of the wiki pages weren't that helpful either, for example: https://xror.avrintech.net/rorwikibackup/index.php/Error_7

ghost on 17 Sep 2016

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As @Michael10055 said, the error message wiki pages where rarely actually helpful, except for error 5 potentially. Which isn't even an issue really anymore with the new Parser, that doesn't crash the game upon loading something with an improperly defined placement line. Most of them were half written, with no real clue on what the actual culprit was.