Bug 92167 - [StatusHandling] Make text in error dialogs selectable
Summary: [StatusHandling] Make text in error dialogs selectable
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.1   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P5 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Krzysztof Daniel CLA
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Reported: 2005-04-20 18:46 EDT by Ben Konrath CLA
Modified: 2019-09-06 15:38 EDT (History)
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Description Ben Konrath CLA 2005-04-20 18:46:35 EDT 
It would be nice if the text in error dialogs was selectable so that users could
copy the error and paste it into bug reports. Please let me know if this is the
wrong component for this bugs. Thanks.
Comment 1 Billy Biggs CLA 2005-04-20 18:49:12 EDT 
I think the error dialog has a Copy thing in its right click menu, is there a
specific dialog you are thinking of here?
Comment 2 Tod Creasey CLA 2005-04-21 10:18:54 EDT 
This would require us going to an non editable text.
Comment 3 Ben Konrath CLA 2005-04-21 18:17:19 EDT 
This request comes from a bug filed in Red Hat's bugzilla [1]. As you can
imagine there are a lot more errors with the natively compiled version of
Eclispe than with Eclipse running on a proprietary VM.

1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145495

Looking into it a little more, I did notice that you can click the details
button and then right click to copy. Is this the behaviour of all error dialogs?
I think that the original person submitting the bug was talking about the
selecting the test from the grey part of the error dialog.
Comment 4 Tod Creasey CLA 2005-04-25 14:45:21 EDT 
You only get details if we get an exception - a simple error message won't do that.
Comment 5 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 15:29:41 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.
Comment 6 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 15:38:22 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.