Bug 2407 - ActionCombos: Create Custom Observer window improvement for Action Points
Summary: ActionCombos: Create Custom Observer window improvement for Action Points
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: frysk
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Sami Wagiaalla
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: 2455
  Show dependency treegraph
 
Reported: 2006-03-01 18:36 UTC by Rick Moseley
Modified: 2006-04-12 19:06 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Host:
Target:
Build:
Last reconfirmed:


Attachments

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Rick Moseley 2006-03-01 18:36:38 UTC
Mike Behm came up with these good suggestions:

It would seem to be pretty time-consuming to click on all of the custom observer
types to determine what each does. Would it be desirable to list the observers
by their configured actions? Something like:

Observers                     Stop     Resume     Source Code    Print State
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Exec Observers
 Special Observer              x                                     x   



Also, in the Actions view is there any advantage to listing Action Points? Would
it be enough to list the available actions (Stop, Resume, Source Code, and Print
State) and allow the user to move these to "Current Actions" as required?
Comment 1 Sami Wagiaalla 2006-03-01 21:36:25 UTC
I like the suggestion from Mike Behm... and the diagram certanly seems better
than what i have attempted to do with the treeview on the left hand side.

ActionPoints, like FilterPoints are nessesary, since they represent the
argument that is sent to an action... for example stop action should be
applied to wich thread ? which actionpoint it is added to determines
that. Clearly the GUI is not doing a good job demonstrating that. I am
open to suggestions on possible improvements. 
Comment 2 Sami Wagiaalla 2006-03-13 20:25:21 UTC
A suggestion from Mike Bhem was to calculate
all the permutations of actions and action points
and just display that to the use in one list.

This will be addressed in new observers dialog
Comment 3 Sami Wagiaalla 2006-04-12 19:06:48 UTC
This is done.
The user only has to make one choise when
adding an action to an observer.