MYOB woes

[freyakitten]

Add another to that list of bugs...

When you tell MYOB to print a report, it goes looking for a printer. If it can't find one installed, it pops up with a message saying that it can't find a printer and please go install one. When you press the OK button on this popup, MYOB goes looking for the printer again.

Obviously, the programmers never considered that MYOB would have a hissy fit at the spooler thingy, or the other way around, and that all your printers would be uninstalled earlier that morning, which fact had not reached the forefront of your consciousness until the moment where you wanted to shut MYOB down in order to restart the computer (which re-finds the printers).

Why is there not a button which says "Cancel"!!!

Comments

[maelorin]

Obviously, the programmers never considered

It is likely that the programmers never got a say in the matter. Usual practice is for programmers to do as their told these days ... they're often as not "outsourced" subcontractors or employees of the lowest-bidder subcontractor.

The problem ought to be sheeted home to the analyst and/or designer who failed to consider such simple things in their model of the universe.

Regardless, whoever the fault belongs to, it is yet another example of Stupid Software Problem™ :(


As for the dialog box not having a Cancel option - what about those error boxes that pop up and tell that the system has eaten your work, won't give it back, and offer "OK" as your sole choice ... grrrr

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

I have a vague memory of some program I used to use fairly regularly - either earlier this year or last year - which would come up with one of those pretty boxes. The box, however, didn't affect the functionality of the program behind it in the slightest. So, if you press 'OK', your work is gone, but if you simply move the box out of the way, you could continue working. Don't remember what it was, but I used it frequently enough to have figured this out :)

[maelorin]

it has been said that if cars were like computer hardware, they'd be awfully cheap and amazingly efficient.

if they were like software, they'd all be fords banned as unroadworthy - let alone manifestly unsafe ...

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

And then we would all ride bicycles.

[maelorin]

some of us already do :)

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Except when it's far too hot or we are otherwise incapacitated :P

[maelorin]

the hotness.

melt.