From: Ian Jackson <ian@liberator.relativity.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:17:07 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Better message for incomprehensible displays
X-Git-Tag: 1.9.2~90^2~9
X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~yarrgweb/git?p=ypp-sc-tools.db-live.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=16b8ec5d6cad85187535816eabe8e8273cdc8f5c

Better message for incomprehensible displays
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diff --git a/pctb/structure.c b/pctb/structure.c
index d053b44..de7d3ce 100644
--- a/pctb/structure.c
+++ b/pctb/structure.c
@@ -92,10 +92,16 @@ const CanonColourInfo canoncolourinfos[]= {
 
 static void mustfail1(const char *file, int line, const char *what) {
   fprintf(stderr,
-	  "\n\n"
-	  "Unable to figure out contents of YPP client display.\n"
-	  " Check that your client is logged in has the correct display.\n"
-	  " If that isn't the problem, please report this as a fault.\n\n"
+ "\n\n"
+ "Unable to figure out contents of YPP client display.\n"
+ "Please check the following:\n"
+ "   * YPP client is showing commodity listing screen\n"
+ "   * YPP client has antialiased text turned off (Ye / Options / General)\n"
+ "   * YPP client window is on top (we try to raise it but your window\n"
+ "      manager might have prevented that from succeeding)\n"
+ "   * Your X display is 24bpp (NB some VNC servers use 16bpp by default)\n"
+ "\n"
+ "If all of these are true, please report this as a fault.\n\n"
 	  "Technical details:"
 	  " %s:%d: requirement failed:\n"
 	  " %s\n",