[Openmcl-devel] Visual Bugs in the IDE

[Andrew Shalit]

Do you want your end users to see these messages?

Many "real" Macintosh applications send to the system log files.  Most  
Mac users never see these messages, but if you look at the log files  
they're there.  I wouldn't think it would be hard for CCL to do the  
same, rather than sending output to the Alt Console.  But of course,  
it won't be visible to the user then.



On May 20, 2009, at 9:59 PM, Alexander Repenning wrote:

> you have my vote too for the black text color. I don't mind the  
> console looking different but the red font does look a tad  
> disturbing. When running our event code in LUI we do produce output  
> which always ends up in the AltConsole. At any rate this should not  
> be hard to "fix". I suggest to include a config file for the  
> console, e.g.,
>
> textColor = "000000"  /* black
>
> This way everybody can have it their way.
>
> Here is a harder problem that we face: The console is fine for  
> developer mode but in end-user mode, i.e., when using CCL to create  
> a complete app without listener and with custom menus we absolutely  
> cannot have the Altconsole. In MCL this was not exactly trivial to  
> achieve either. We had to create a pretty complex conditions handler  
> case that would catch all the conditions, present them in a standard  
> dialog, e.g., simple-condition: division-by-zero "OK" and continue  
> in some meaningful way, e.g., stop simulation, adjust controls such  
> as run/stop/step buttons, and restart the event loop. Using native  
> threads I can already anticipate tricky challenges but if CCL is to  
> be used to build "real" applications this kind of functionality is  
> rather crucial.
>
> What to do?
>
> Alex
>
>
>
> On May 20, 2009, at 7:43 PM, John McAleely wrote:
>
>>>> Is there a reason why the text in it is red, and not black like  
>>>> every
>>>> other window?
>>>
>>> Because it's not like every other window ?
>>>
>>> AltConsole is a (small) separate application; it's supposed to  
>>> provide
>>> a primitive terminal-like interface to GUI applications that don't
>>> ordinarily have such an interface.  If its window appears, there's
>>> a good chance that that's because of something anomalous and that
>>> something probably requires user or developer attention.
>>
>> I understand the special status of this application window, and I
>> empathise with the attempt to draw attention to it.
>>
>> However, the text is marginally harder to read, and I fail to believe
>> colouring it red provides any meaningful extra information to a
>> developer or user. I feel it also manages to look surprisingly like
>> some sort of bug itself.
>>
>> J
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