I'd like to see the elimination of modal pop-up dialogs whenever possible, perhaps
favoring status bar notices and logging instead - specifically in the case of I/O
errors but there might be others.
For example: "I/O Error - The following I/O operation could not be completed: C:\Program
Files\jEdit\#Untitled-1#: Cannot save: java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\jEdit\#Untitled-1#
(Access is denied)". This is information that is nice to have, but not something I
want to see every 30 seconds until I get around to either A) saving the file in a
location I have permission to, or B) turning off the default global autosave setting.
Note that I do understand why this particular message appears, and that there are
several ways to remedy it - I'm just suggesting that when this *does* occur, a modal
dialog isn't the way to handle it.
Another one I see a lot is "The following nn I/O operations could not be completed:"
followed by a bunch of character encoding warnings when I do a HyperSearch on a subdirectory
tree that has some binary files mixed in. Again this might nice-to-have info, but
not something I want to be bothered with whenever I am too lazy to narrow the HyperSearch
Filter down from "*" (which is nearly always).
If I am manually saving a file and an I/O error occurs, that is when I would want
and expect a dialog to pop up.
| Submitted | m0n0lith - 2011-03-30 - 23:19:57z | Assigned | nobody |
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| Priority | 5 | Category | None |
| Status | Open | Group | None |
| Resolution | None | Visibility | No |
| 2011-03-30 - 23:42:19z m0n0lith |
PS - quick hack for those who just really doesn't want to see these two particular messages ever again (despite possible consequences): comment out line 92 in BufferAutosaveRequest.java and line 341 in BufferLoadRequest.java, and _caveat utilitor_! |
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| 2011-03-31 - 02:47:30z ezust |
I think VFSManager.error() should be deprecated, and/or rewritten to use Log.log(Log.ERROR,
..) instead of those old error dialogs. |