Too Many Mouse Buttons

I love your error page! I've read every single error message on here and they're hilarious =)

Here's one of the most common errors, ever. But with a strange twist In 3d Studio MAX R2 running under win98, if you press the 3rd mouse button, nothing happens, as well as the right mouse button, but if you press them both at the same time, it immediately crashes the program and says:

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. if the problem persists, contact the program vendor. 3D causes an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at ....

... and then the typical hex garbage

My point is two things

  1. Wasn't it *ME* that performed the illegal operation? I mean, it must hate having 2 mouse buttons pressed at the same time. Oh the horror. I can't believe that these programmers can make advanced software that does realistic 3d rendering but they can't even make it handle something as simple as holding down 2 mouse buttons at the same time.
  2. It annoys me that Microsoft puts "if the problem persists, contact the program vendor" ...as if to say that it's never Microsoft's fault, and not the program vender? The arrogance.

Submitted by: Jared Hoag

What's interesting that handling mouse button events is not automatic -- that is, the application must include specific provisions to recognize and respond to mouse button events. Not to mention needing an entirely separate provision to recognize and respond to two mouse buttons simultaneously  …Your second point, however, is more relevant than you realize ... because this sounds like the fault could be in the system -- that is, Microsoft's fault.

 

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