Dang, somebody has been hard at work! Can't wait to see a new version. Richard On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 16:50, Scott Deboy wrote: > 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] > >
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