Community
Participate
Working Groups
Build ID: M20080911-1700 When discussing a particular compiler error message (see bug 249134 comment 25) it occurred that long messages can cause difficulties because relevant portions of the message could easily be invisible in the ui. Because I feel that good error messages sometimes require more verbosity than what is currently visible, I suggest to improve the support for long messages/descriptions in the problems view: * shouldn't items in the problems view have hovers? * would it be possible to "open" a line within the problem view to show the description on multiple lines (inline)? * the properties dialog (alt+enter) could present descriptions in a text field with line-wrapping I'm not sure what would be the best solution, but I feel that a chopped status line (with hover, yes ;-) is not enough.
Created attachment 118120 [details] Patch 1 > * the properties dialog (alt+enter) could present descriptions > in a text field with line-wrapping The patch does this. I think the status line msg and tooltip should suffice for succinct descriptions .A mouse hover may be too much for a view, and may seem like an annoyance. If you'd like to view a long description the patch for the property page should be enough.
Created attachment 118122 [details] Did try out the hover. Looks redundant on the view that is already showing the same info.The property page is a better place for long descriptions.
> * shouldn't items in the problems view have hovers? I think this is also a platform bug: On Windows and the Mac, you get rollover tooltips when you hover over a table or tree item whose content is not completely visible. The tooltips on Windows don't wrap, but there's usually enough space on the right of the Description column to make it fully visible. AFAIK, GTK does not offer such rollover tooltips. You should file a bug against GTK (SWT would probably not want to emulate this for GTK).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 243381 ***
