How about this: Add the ability to 'undock' a tabbed pane (and apply normal window functionality - tile/cascade etc).
Add the ability to 'clone' a tabbed pane. LoggingEvents would be sent to both tabbed panes and filtered/colorized independently. This relates back to my earlier idea of being able to select which fields are used to generate tabbed panes and route loggingevents (if the MDC was used, new tabbed panes would just show up - not based on machine name/app name but on whatever identifier was chosen). Interesting ideas, Paul. By the way, I forgot to mention this previously but each tabbed pane now has the ability to be paused/unpaused. Scott -----Original Message----- From: Paul Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 1:30 PM To: 'Log4J Developers List' Subject: RE: New Chainsaw features - feedback? [Notes 1-2 all good stuff IMHO ] > 3: Tabbed pane support - a tabbed pane for each unique > machinename/app combination. I thought about allowing the > user to pick which fields are used to build the unique tabbed > panes, but I'm not sure how useful it would be. I could see > using the NDC or MDC on separate tabbed panes in some situations. What about a Multiple Doc Interface? Ideally from my point of view with the current app we are working on would be to allow the server to broadcast all log events as current, but have multiple windows all listening to the same stream, but with different filters. Each of our modules in our app all have Logger/Categories per module rather than 1 Logger/Category per class, so 1 window per interested module is the idea, but all coming from the same stream. For example, I would love to see thee current ChainSaw main panel (which contains the Filter, Event Log List, and Detail panel) as a single Document (JInternalFrame) so we can have more than 1 instance. Then also have the ability to "snap"-hide the filter/detail window to watch just the Event log list within the internal frame (Hotkeys would be cool here). Having multiple doc windows would remove the need for us to have multiple cygwin/ssh windows open to tail & grep a log file for each interested module. Together with this Multiple window would be to add the concept of a window "Profile", which would contain the interested columns, in a particular order, configured to size. Each internal frame could then be configured with a chosen Profile. Perhaps each profile contains where the source of the Log events come from (i.e listening on a Socket, or connecting to some socket somewhere else, or some other Appender source). Lastly to extend this concept even further is to copy the Opera browsers Session concept, which is purely a saved set of open windows with their chosen profile. > 4: Jakarta RegExp used to build display and colorizing > filters. The DisplayFilter associates columns with regular > expressions. If the value in that column passes the regexp, > then the row is added to the display. ColorFilters work the > same way except they map columns and regular expressions to a > Color. For example, colorFilter.addFilter("Level", > "WARN|INFO", Color.RED) will do the obvious. If a > DisplayFilter exists, the row must pass at least one filter > to be displayed. If there are no display filters, all rows pass. This is brilliant. >> 6: Handy multi-line tooltip text - see Logger/Msg/Level/Exception information as you move the mouse over the table's rows - no more scrolling to the right to read the exception! This would even replace or defer the need to view the detail message pane. Another Brilliant concept. I also liked your idea of defining some sort of Pattern to define what appears in the tooltip. This could fit into the Profile concept above. cheers, _________________________ Paul Smith Lawlex Compliance Solutions phone: +61 3 9278 1511 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
