Vital information for anyone debugging setup.exe
Dave Korn
dave.korn@artimi.com
Tue Apr 19 18:14:00 GMT 2005
----Original Message----
>From: Gary R. Van Sickle
>Sent: 19 April 2005 19:05
> [snip]
>>
>>> Nevertheless I still prefer insight over gdb.
>>> You just have to turn off those misdirected dialog popups, which
>>> should be logfile entries.
>>
>> Yes, I kind of deduced that.... do you know what the syntax
>> is to turn them off, by any chance?
>
> I think he's talking about doing a search-n-replace on the setup source.
It would probably be easier simpler and quicker to find the messagebox
call in the insight source (most of which is just tcl/tk scripting after
all) and comment it out.
Actually it should probably be properly removed and sent upstream as a
patch. Opening a fresh window per log message is just plain wrong on pretty
much any host or target I can imagine. One window with debug messages
scrolling up, yes; one window, that blocks execution until it is clicked
away, maybe; one window, that simply overwrites it's message with each new
debug message as it arrives, ok; but opening window after window after
window without limit?
Debug messages just don't belong in dialog boxes.
cheers,
DaveK
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