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VASSAL, the open-source boardgame engine
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Add a "copy to clipboard" button to the help, show error log dialog #8601

Closed uckelman closed 2 years ago

uckelman commented 3 years ago
Bugzilla
ID BZ12531
Reported 2016-08-06 05:50:00 +0200
Modified 2020-06-22 00:12:58 +0200
Product VASSAL
Component Module Manager
Version 3.2.16
Platform All
OS All
Status NEW
Resolution None
Priority unspecified
Severity minor
Milestone ---
Reporter JR VanMechelen
Assignee Bugs

JR VanMechelen 2016-08-06 05:50:39 +0200

It's about 50/50 whether a given user can figure out how to copy out all the text from the show error dialog, especially when the text goes past the bottom of the window. A button labeled "Copy error message to clipboard" would help a lot of users.
Cattlesquat commented 2 years ago

@uckelman Does this still seem like a good idea? It's super-easy to do. I just don't want to accidentally discourage users from actually sending the ABR bug reports (by distracting them with another button). Maybe only in non-reporting versions?

uckelman commented 2 years ago

The thing about non-reporting versions is that I intentionally made them non-reporting so that we don't get the reports. Reports from old versions are mostly not useful, and people using test version usually are au fait with copy and paste. So I'm leaning toward No on this one.