[Chandler-dev] Having problems accessing Tinderbox logs?

[Grant Baillie]

On 6 Dec, 2006, at 12:30, Heikki Toivonen wrote:

> Some people seem to be having lots of problems accessing the build  
> logs
> from Tinderbox. Mostly these seem to be cause by the dialog that  
> pops up
> when you click on one of the links (l, L C), in that the dialog goes
> away before you have a change to click one of the links in the dialog.
>
> I'd rather not get rid of the dialog because it does provide one  
> useful
> bit of information: the time it took for that cycle.

Does anyone care about anything else in the dialog? It seems a bunch  
of the information is redundant, e.g. buildname (top of the column),  
buildstatus (background colour), starttime & endtime (vertical  
position), build (the page you're on). If there's not too much  
information to display, a simple option would be to have regular html  
<A> elements with a title attribute for the info.

> ...
> Information on how to deal with the dialog:
>
> The dialog goes away if you:
>
> 1) Mouse over any link outside of the dialog
> 2) Mouse over the close link in the top right corner of the dialog
>
> So if you avoid those actions you should be able to click one of the
> links in the dialog itself.
> I've heard some reports that some browser+platform combination  
> makes the
> dialog go away as soon as you move the mouse, no matter where. Some
> people have also reported the dialog going away no matter what they  
> do,
> regardless of platform and browser.
>
> Do you know a platform+browser combination that makes using the dialog
> hard, or where there are no workarounds to bypass the dialog?

It seems harder to keep the dialog up in Safari on the Mac. Firefox  
is OK, although it's easy to run into 1) and 2) accidentally.

> ...
> Still, the dialog is pretty flaky so it would be nice to fix it. Any
> volunteers? There have been a few of proposals on how to fix this:
>
> * Provide a new link that pops up the dialog, and change the old links
> to go directly to the log
> * Write the cycle time in the cell itself and disable the dialog  
> completely
> * Change the dialog code so that it goes away only when the close
> "button" is clicked.

I've been playing with some js/html in my spare time, and I find the  
current behaviour kind of annoying, so I'd be up for taking a look at  
this.

--Grant