Re: Error message number standards

[Dick Gaskill <dickg -at- AG3D -dot- COM>]

Not sure if there are any "standards" for error messages, but there are
several national standards organizations that might be able to help you.

Personally, I use an alpha-numerical format, as shown below.  You can
set up alpha strings to designate the software module and then establish
ranges of error messages to further classify them.

NOTE:  if there is any chance that you will be localizing your product
and/or docs, make SURE that the engineers create the error messages in a
message catalog, an external text file called by the software.  If they
hard-code the error messages intot he code, you're going to have a lot
of extra expense and QA before the product  is released.  Been there,
done that.

MGR1000  Text of error message       (from the software manager);
        MGR1000 -1999 = SW MGR GUI error messages, MGR2000 -2999 = SW
MGR  miniport error messages, etc.)

DRV1001--  (etc)


ISO (International Standards Organization) is a worldwide federation of
national standards bodies from over 110 countries. To date, ISO has
developed nearly 10,000 standards covering industrial, economic,
scientific and technological activity.
http://www.spie.org/

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI . http://www.ansi.org/

Institute for Electronics & Electrical Engineering  (IEEE)
http://www.ieee.org/i3e_hp.html

Dick Gaskill
Pubs Mgr
AccelGraphics, Inc.


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        From:  Benzi Schreiber [SMTP:bschreiber -at- OLIVR -dot- COM]
        Sent:  Thursday, March 19, 1998 5:12 AM
        To:  TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
        Subject:  Error message number standards

        Does anyone know where I can find standards for numbering
program error messages, based on message type?

        Benzi Schreiber
        Live Picture Inc.
        bschreiber -at- olivr -dot- com
        http://www.livepicture.com