You’ll quickly notice that it is often necessary to update messages with additional information.
Keeping in mind future applications, you will set up a customizable form that will replace the ALERT command and display more personalized messages, where you may (or may not) authorize the copying of error messages.
Also remember that this alert dialog is a separate form. So it can contain:
several pages
a tab
buttons
arrays
as well as anything else that seems necessary.
You can even send an automatic e-mail to the Help service containing the following information:
about the user
the machine
the date
the time
the error message
and so on.
Or you can just record this information in a log file that customer service can access..
You can also set up the form so that:
you can show or hide a particular button
you can add a URL that you can click to access on-line help
you can choose the message language
you can configure messages based on a table filled in by the user
and so on.
Once you get the hang of it, the sky is the limit.