On 6 Dec, 2006, at 12:30, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
Some people seem to be having lots of problems accessing the build
logs
from Tinderbox. Mostly these seem to be cause by the dialog that
pops up
when you click on one of the links (l, L C), in that the dialog goes
away before you have a change to click one of the links in the dialog.
I'd rather not get rid of the dialog because it does provide one
useful
bit of information: the time it took for that cycle.
Does anyone care about anything else in the dialog? It seems a bunch
of the information is redundant, e.g. buildname (top of the column),
buildstatus (background colour), starttime & endtime (vertical
position), build (the page you're on). If there's not too much
information to display, a simple option would be to have regular html
<A> elements with a title attribute for the info.
...
Information on how to deal with the dialog:
The dialog goes away if you:
1) Mouse over any link outside of the dialog
2) Mouse over the close link in the top right corner of the dialog
So if you avoid those actions you should be able to click one of the
links in the dialog itself.
I've heard some reports that some browser+platform combination
makes the
dialog go away as soon as you move the mouse, no matter where. Some
people have also reported the dialog going away no matter what they
do,
regardless of platform and browser.
Do you know a platform+browser combination that makes using the dialog
hard, or where there are no workarounds to bypass the dialog?
It seems harder to keep the dialog up in Safari on the Mac. Firefox
is OK, although it's easy to run into 1) and 2) accidentally.
...
Still, the dialog is pretty flaky so it would be nice to fix it. Any
volunteers? There have been a few of proposals on how to fix this:
* Provide a new link that pops up the dialog, and change the old links
to go directly to the log
* Write the cycle time in the cell itself and disable the dialog
completely
* Change the dialog code so that it goes away only when the close
"button" is clicked.
I've been playing with some js/html in my spare time, and I find the
current behaviour kind of annoying, so I'd be up for taking a look at
this.
--Grant
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