[Development] Proposal: Changing the default output of qDebug and friends

[Lincoln Ramsay]

On 03/29/2012 09:41 AM, ext Lincoln Ramsay wrote:
> Why can't Creator just set the QT_MESSAGE_PATTERN environment variable
> then and leave the default alone? Creator would not need to show the
> filename and line number, just use them for when you click on the warnings.

And related to this...

If we're going to have warnings that result in click-to-locate then we 
really need to find a way of doing perl-style carp (ie. warning from the 
caller's context).

I think that both Windows and Glibc have a facility that may allow this 
to be done but getting something truly cross-platform may not be possible.


The QList.at() assertion has always struck me as totally useless because 
unless you've got a debugger attached you aren't told (and thus cannot 
find out) _where_ the code that triggered the assertion is. The ability 
to warn from the caller's perspective would make this assertion so much 
more useful.

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Lincoln Ramsay - Senior Software Engineer
Qt Development Frameworks, Nokia - http://qt.nokia.com/