Hi Scott,
is there any way to contribute to the tutorial? ChainsawV2 is very
powerful but initially I felt lost when switching from the old Chainsaw.
Just had a quick look - I have no idea how you generate the
documentation though ....
+) would it make sense to write a seperate tutorial in any document
format (apart from MS Word)
+) there is a WIKI would could be a starting point
+) since a tutorial will contain a few images maybe OpenOffice would be
okayish
My other comments you find below ...
Thanks in advance
Siegfried Goeschl
Scott Deboy wrote:
Thanks for the feedback -
Chainsaw supports most of what you've suggested. Here are the details:
- You should be able to open Chainsaw from the command line and specify the
configuration file by adding -Dlog4j.configuration=chainsaw.xml to the command
(log4j.xml has to be in the classpath). Example command line (in this example,
chainsaw.xml is in \downloads\log4j):
Gotcha
java -Dlog4j.configuration=chainsaw.xml -classpath
c:\downloads\log4j;c:\downloads\log4j\jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar;c:\downloads\log4j\log4j-chainsaw-1.3alpha-7.jar;c:\downloads\log4j\log4j-oro.jar;c:\downloads\log4j\log4j-xml.jar;c:\downloads\log4j\log4j-optional.jar;c:\downloads\log4j\log4j-1.3alpha-7.jar
org.apache.log4j.chainsaw.LogUI
- If you are using a receiver like LogFilePatternReceiver (log file not stored
using XMLLayout) to view a log file, you can 'reload' the log file by clearing
events and restarting the receiver:
- clear the events from the tab (ctrl-backspace or the trash can icon)
- open the receiver panel (view-show receivers menu)
- select the receiver that's loading events from the log file
- select the third icon from the left in the receiver toolbar (tooltip is 'restarts the selected Receiver')
- If you're viewing a log file stored using XMLLayout, you can still clear the
current tab and then choose file-open and open the file
I'm not sure but Chainsaw always starts from the USER_HOME and running
file open is in our case a long way to refresh the file. There are many
ways to skin the cat
+) reload button
+) keeping track of the origin directory
+) recent logfile list
- You can close a tab by right-clicking on a tab and selecting 'hide' (you can
also undock a tab by double-clicking on the tab-to re-dock 'close' the tab)
Ooops, is hiding the same as closing?! Sorry for sounding dumb ... .
- To hide the Welcome tab, press F1, or select the 'view-Welcome tab' menu
I'm not good in reading welcome screens - I'm sure it was mentioned
thers somewhere ...
- I agree with the pre-defined filters suggestion, and I'll make the change
These are all good questions and should be added to the tutorial.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Siegfried Goeschl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 10/7/2005 12:10 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Some Feedback from using Chainsaw V2 ...
Hi folks,
I started to use Chainsaw V2 in production and would like to provide
some feedback ... very politely of course and hoping I didn't miss
something VERY obvious .... :-)
+) it would be helpful to use command line parameters, i.e. to open
chainsaw with XML logfile defined on the command line
+) I think it would be also useful to have a reload button when looking
at a XML logfile when not using Chainsaw Appender
+) how can I close a tab?!
+) is there a way to get rid of "Welcome" and "chainsaw-log" - our
sysadmins are slightly confused ....
+) Chainsaw provides a few predefined filter, e.g "LEVEL == INFO" - I
think "LEVEL > INFO" would be more intuitive for a user
I hope this was helpful and not offending .... ;-)
Cheers,
Siegfried Goeschl
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