Re: [orca-list] The value for orca to have time information in the debug files

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:41:42PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Hello,
> Yes I think being able to post extra messages into the debug would
> be useful. Remember you will get a whole bundle of events associated
> to the action of inserting the user message, therefore it may be
> worth considering how you can minimise these (e.g. might it be
> cleaner in the debug if it was a key stroke to insert a
> predetermined message rather than having a dialog open, etc).

Hmmm, I hadn't thought about the dialog triggering even more events.
I think the feature is more valuable if the user can specify the
message contents each time it is inserted but you're right concerning
the opening and closing of the Orca dialog prompting for the message.
The only work-around that I could see immediately being done would be
for the user to turn the debug level down to off, then insert the
message and then turn debug level back up to full or whatever
desired.  I would not tie the insertion message to any debug levels
since this is a manual thing called for by the user on demand.  I have
a permanent key assigned to rotor the debug levels on my setup.

Another idea I just thought of could be to split this up and have one
function that just adds the user message to a flat file and then have
the debug insert function copy the contents of that flat file into the
debug output.  However in either case, this dialog interaction would
spiew contents into the debug out.  I suppose this functionality could
automatically bypass debug output temperarially while processing.

Gee, don't wanna make this thing too complicated before it even starts
<smile>.