The broken Thing is the symptom not the cause. I very much doubt
they the developers of Thing used some evil hack just to open
a dialogue box.
Well, this is another extreme then, too. "I could swear there's no way it could happen in such and such way" is also very common in software industry :)
From the positive point of view, Mathias & people around ACP are working hard on pushing Thing to GPL-ed open source license (and they've achieved quite a success since then), so after then, everyone can take a look who did what.
By the way guys, don't you have a feeling we _really_ miss some working / usable / actively managed tool for project monitoring? I mean reporting bugs, adding feature requests, uploading screenshots, test builds, those binary (and maybe untested) stuff, patches, code snips.... I don't know about you but I'm totally lost in this huge amount of mails where "everyone" is posting some patches, builds, screenshots, RSC data, TBL data, sources, test applications, ... I think Alan is here as the last remaining active maintainer with CVS access and we can only pray he was able to track everything. I've got quite experience with such software but I'd like to know if you (I mean mainly developers and active testers) would be willing to use it. I can provide server, bandwidth, user accounts etc but it must make some sense and not to be just some toy for myself... I welcome any suggestions (e.g. what software do you like to use; if you have some preferred tool... maybe even
sourceforge.net would be enough for this?)