Error message of the week
The other day I transferred a short five minutes video clip from my DV camera. The bundled software saved it to MPG format, which I then tried to import into the Windows Movie Maker application that comes installed as standard on Windows XP.
Only it wouldn’t have a bar (frame?) of it, instead presenting me with this incredibly user-friendly (that was irony!) warning:
An interface has too many methods to fire events from.
What?! What on earth does that mean?!! How on earth are non-über-geeks supposed to know what to do when presented with that sort of nonsense error message? Poor show Microsoft!
What I did was install my copy of PureMotion EditStudio 1.5 and imported and edited my video clip in that instead. In EditStudio your interface can use as many methods to fire events from as it pleases … I presume.
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May 9th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
I just love firing events. I just hate it when there are too many methods in my interface… although I am taking tablets…
May 10th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
I’m with Rich on this one!
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Stress relief when you are not alone. Is ther a Guiness Record category for the most stupid unhelpful error message?