(sorry for delay) On 9 December 2013 10:22, Tobias Hunger <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09.12.2013 10:13, Mateusz Loskot wrote: >>> Long story short, I would like to add colorise some lines >> that my custom IOutputParser recognises. > > Please don't. I have enough bug reports about the two colors we use > already:-) You would be surprised how many people ask to change one line > or another to be printed in red instead of black (or the other way > around)... or that complain that after changing the compiler the errors > are no longer printed in red as they used to or whatnot.
I understand and I won't :) > If you insist on doing you own custom highlighting: Please make your > lines stand out from the others in such a way that it is clear that no > compiler/buildsystem combo on earth would ever create them! I will keep that in mind as a very last resort. >> 2) Or, there is no way, for tasks in "Compile" category, apply >> some finer filtering. The only available is on/off for warnings. > > Also have bug reports for that... same problem as for the sorting. > >> In my case, build output can contain >> - build errors >> - build warnings >> - compile-time testing status (fail/pass) >> - run-time testing status (fail/pass) >> >> and I'd like to visually distinguish output for the last two kinds, >> either in "Compile Output" view directly or in the "Issues" list. > > I do not think compile output is the right place for this: Many users > seem to not display that at all and fully rely on the build issues. > > https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,72040 adds support for custom > icons to the tasks in the build issues. You could use those to make your > tests stand out a bit more in that list. > > You could even move them into their own task category, so that you > toggle the tests in the build issues separately from the compile issues. > I would recommend doing that anyway: Tests are no compile problems after > all, so they deserve a separate category. That is a piece of advise I needed, apparently. The icon and dedicated category is best fit for my purpose for my https://github.com/mloskot/qt-creator-plugin-boostbuild I will learn how to make use of it. Thanks a lot for all the other explanation, much helpful to understand where things come from. Best regards, -- Mateusz Ĺoskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
