[PATCH setup] Make sure that fatal error messages are visible

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Tue Dec 19 00:53:00 GMT 2017


The message box produced by TOPLEVEL_CATCH could be hidden by whatever
window was previously being displayed, so that setup appeared to hang.
Fix this by giving fatal error message boxes type MB_SETFOREGROUND.
---
 msg.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/msg.cc b/msg.cc
index 403e78a..0ba4839 100644
--- a/msg.cc
+++ b/msg.cc
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ fatal (HWND owner, int id, ...)
 {
   va_list args;
   va_start (args, id);
-  mbox (owner, "fatal", 0, id, args);
+  mbox (owner, "fatal", MB_SETFOREGROUND, id, args);
   Logger ().exit (1);
 }
 
-- 
2.15.1



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