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Migrate string-based exceptions during initialization to localized error codes/types

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#13.394 geöffnet am 3. Mai 2026

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Currently during initialization OBS will simply throw const char * for issues

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/085a51ab0f0573412a368905bb9a843e2de4cecd/frontend/OBSApp.cpp#L1054-L1061

and run_program happens to know to catch those with

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/blob/085a51ab0f0573412a368905bb9a843e2de4cecd/frontend/obs-main.cpp#L693-L696

This is both messy and also means that these errors can not be localized.

All of these potential errors during initialization should throw a proper exception type that identifies the kind of error with an optional error message for developers, then catch the specific type and display the localized error message appropriate for the error.

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