On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:30:20 +0000, Peter Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 22:32 -0800, Jared Casper wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Peter Clifton <[email protected]> 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.
Why not have a bar (in a "warning" colour) that pops up at the top of the layout window, and disappears after a short interval (say, 2 seconds). Clicking the bar would bring up the message window. This is what my phone (N900, runs Linux) uses for displaying transient warning/notification messages, and it works really nicely. Peter >> 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. -- Peter Brett <[email protected]> Remote Sensing Research Group Surrey Space Centre _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
