Re: gEDA-user: Message and Library windows

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 22:32 -0800, Jared Casper wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I can't help but feel that some log messages are important enough to
> > bother the user about - and others are not.. we'll have to see what
> > people actually using it think, I'm not doing any PCB design work at the
> > moment myself.
> >
> 
> Maybe add a Warn function along side Message (or something along those
> lines), and add a flag to HID.log that says whether or not to bring
> the log window to the foreground?  Or go all out and add an enum for
> severity.  It'd be easy to add the plumbing, the hard part would be to
> go through and decide what Message()s should be Warn()s, etc.
> 
> I'm sure different severities could be displayed differently in the
> log quite easily as well...

Sounds good. gschem has different message warning levels, but in
practice you rarely see them. (Especially as it looses that info if the
message window isn't on-screen when the message is logged!)

> The functionality I saw someplace (was it in your repo?) to
> attach/embed the log window to the main window will help out with this
> problem as well I think.

Not mine.. I recall the one you're talking about, but I can't remember
the location of it.

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Peter Clifton

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Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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