I have just been programming in DirectShow, and got an error message that was not in the documentation. However, AMGetErrorText helped, and gave me ''Catastophic failure'' which made me laugh. Thanks very much, I now know I have done wrong... Has anyone else had funny error messages when interfacing with other software?

i got an ''operating system not found'' when i installed windows 98??? it swas funny for a while i guess...

i always liked the "parse error before ;" error message... turbo pascal did that at school when i was in computer science...

what about ''too many java-script errors'' in netscape?

no really funny ones though...

''error loading error file, futher errors will be lost''

Magmai Kai Holmlor
- The disgruntled & disillusioned

I got this one in MSVC 4

"A Unknown Error Has Occurred, Consult Documentation"

It''s a linker error, it''s in MSDN somewhere. My question is if I don''t know what the error is, then how could I consult the documentation?

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Original post by Galileo430

I got this one in MSVC 4

"A Unknown Error Has Occurred, Consult Documentation"

It's a linker error, it's in MSDN somewhere. My question is if I don't know what the error is, then how could I consult the documentation?

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Long live Microsoft... That's what you get when you hire any body that doesn't have any programming background to write applications for you.( I'm talking about M$ )...





Cyberdrek
Headhunter Soft
A division of DLC Multimedia


Edited by - Cyberdrek on March 26, 2001 10:52:11 PM

I encountered this error while compiling some code with gcc, It seemed funny at the time:

Parser confused. Aborting.

Parsers aren''t supposed to get confused... ha ha ha, not funny

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"Prepare for armageddon"
"Warning: printer is on fire"
"Unholy error"
"Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue."
"Error - cannot delete file, there is insufficient disk space. Please delete one or more files and try again."

and the funniest ever (IMO)...

NAPSTER: this program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.

A Mouse is an advanced input device to make computer errors easier to generate.

DYNAMIC LINKING ERROR: Your mistake is now everywhere.
USER ERROR: replace user and press any key to continue.
System Error #03: Your password is pitifully obvious.
Windows Error #018: Unrecoverable error. System destroyed.
ERROR #2705: Programmer infected with a virus
WindowError 031: Unable to Multitask. (A)dd 16 Mb, (T)hrow PC out window.
WindowError 033: An error occurred because an error occurred.
WindowError 015: Unexplained error. Please tell us how it happened.

The Amiga used to have "Guru Meditation" errors.

Always struck me as a very cool term.

this one''s from Outlook Express 5.0

"There are no deleted items. To delete an item, right-click on a message and choose Delete. Do you want Outlook Express to delete some items for you?"

lol

and have a look here:
http://www.iarchitect.com/mshame.htm