On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 11:59:19PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2006-12-14, muzzol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Why on earth would anybody design an error dialog window so > >>> that you can't copy/paste text from the error message? Are > >>> the error messages secret and proprietary? > >> > >> Allowing text selection is quite difficult if the widget in > >> question doesn't provide that by default. So it's reasonable > >> that someone wouldn't go to great lengths to *enable* cut and > >> paste if it doesn't seem like something users are likely to > >> need. > > Anybody who wants useful bug reports should indeed go to great > lengths to make sure that it's easy to precisely report (e.g. > cut/paste) all error messages encountered by the user. > > > what about echoing errors to stdout in addition to window? is that so > > dificult to implement? > > That would have been quite useful as well.
If you *want* to write a good bug report, not being able to copy/paste an error message isn't a big problem. You can do a screenshot too. Moreover, Cinelerra rarely outputs error messages to a window. What takes time is to describe the steps needed to replicate the error. Nicolas. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ BOYCOTT SUSE & NOVELL (C)(TM)(R) MICRO$OFT ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
