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Re: gEDA-user: Message and Library windows

Hi all, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Clifton
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:30 AM
> To: gEDA user mailing list
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Message and Library windows
> 
> 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.
> 

Maybe it was the geany app used for coding stuff by some (including me).

http://www.geany.org/Documentation/Screenshots

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.



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