DTFILE_ERROR(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, this is <pink>dtfile_error</pink> — it lives in the (user cmd) manual, and it is the CDE File Manager error-dialog script. that’s the whole name vibe, and honestly? iconic. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

dtfile_error error_message

like, you hand it one error_message, and that’s the move. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so <pink>this script</pink> is here for applications that need to display an error dialog when it would be difficult or impossible to do in the context of the executing program. 😭 for example: when exec fails in a child process, or if an error is detected before an application’s main window can be realized. it can also be used from a shell script to display an error dialog — versatile queen behavior. 👑

and yes, <hotpink>File Manager</hotpink> uses this script to display an error dialog when exec fails within a child process. that’s the specific use case, and we’re keeping it. 🫶

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

💖 dtfile_error You did something wrong 💖

run it from a command line and boom — you get an error dialog. the dialog consists of the message text "You did something wrong" and an OK button. clicking on OK dismisses the dialog. periodt. 💅

🧚 execl(dtfile_error, dtfile_error, s, NULL); 🧚

executed from within a program, this displays an error dialog too. the dialog consists of the message text in the string s and an OK button. clicking on OK dismisses the dialog. slay. ✨

catch u later, bestie — footer/source-version energy is dtfile_error(user cmd), and the date? literally not shown on this page, no cap. 💖🌈