From: Jussi Jumppanen <jussij@...>
Date: 2003-12-14T15:46:58+09:00
Subject: Re: It's OK; I worked out the problem

Harry Ohlsen wrote:

> The issue was to do with permissions.  I was running Zeus on files 
> on a Samba share.
> 
> It would be nice, though, if instead of just saying "An unexpected
> error .." it told you what the actual error was.

Zeus in general does try to provide some sort of meaningful error
message to the user. The "An unexpected error .." is a catch all 
error message that as the name suggests only happens when something 
very unexpected happens :)

But in this case, as you correctly suggest, it means extra error 
handling is needed for the workspace file management :(

> With good error messages, the end user can normally sort out almost
> every problem.  Without them, we spend all our time talking to
> support.

Unfortunately the new workspace, class browser, intellisensing feature 
has resulted in more than it's fair share of "unexpected error" bug
reports, due mainly to the fact that it is a new feature. 

Over time it's error reporting will improve.

> Once I sorted out the permissions, I was able to add a file to the
> workspace, but no classes appeared, until I did an udpate of the tags.
> It might be a good idea to automatically do an update when files are 
> added.

This sounds like a bug :(

Jussi Jumppanen
http://www.zeusedit.com