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OpsLog/fatalbox_windows.go
rouggy ae5aa7b547 fix(startup): a launch that fails before the window says why
Reported from a Windows 10 machine: the process appears, no data folder
is created, nothing starts. There was nothing to read because the only
log OpsLog has lives inside the folder that was never created.

Three exits happen before any window or log exists, and all three were
silent. Another instance already running — correct to refuse, since two
would fight over the rig, but indistinguishable from a crash. The data
folder unwritable — it is created BESIDE the executable, so a copy
dropped into Program Files is refused by Windows outright. And wails.Run
failing, which is where a missing WebView2 runtime lands; its error went
to println, which in a GUI-subsystem program goes nowhere at all.

Each now writes to %LOCALAPPDATA%\OpsLog\startup.log — a folder Windows
guarantees the user can write to, whatever OpsLog was installed into —
and shows a message box naming the fault and what to do about it.
2026-08-25 21:03:16 +02:00

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//go:build windows
package main
import (
"syscall"
"unsafe"
)
// fatalBox shows a message box and returns.
//
// A GUI-subsystem program has no console: println goes nowhere, and a launch
// that ends before the window exists ends in complete silence. Every silent exit
// in main now says something here first — an operator who is told "another
// OpsLog is already running" can act on it; one who sees nothing files "it does
// not start", which is the report nobody can answer.
func fatalBox(title, text string) {
user32 := syscall.NewLazyDLL("user32.dll")
proc := user32.NewProc("MessageBoxW")
t, err1 := syscall.UTF16PtrFromString(text)
ti, err2 := syscall.UTF16PtrFromString(title)
if err1 != nil || err2 != nil {
return
}
const mbIconError = 0x00000010
proc.Call(0, uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(t)), uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(ti)), mbIconError)
}