CCS Build Console Buffer Size

Hi Sarah,

I'm going to move this to the CCS forum since both questions are related to the GUI.

Sarah Weinberger said:

The current limit is 500 lines. I tried going to "Windows | Preferences | Run/Debug | Console" and removing the check on the "Limit console output," but that had no effect. I tried increasing the buffer size with the option checked and that had no effect too.

Did you try changing the number of lines output in the build console under the Build Console preferences?

Sarah Weinberger said:

Does the build console output get written to disk?

Please see http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Build_Errors_in_CCS#CCS_Build_Console

Sarah Weinberger said:

Also, I see hovering over the Problems that that I have 4 errors, however the table is blank. I have to look at the console window.

Do you mean the Problems view is not displaying errors that are reported in the console view? Can you share an example project that reproduces this issue?

I read this possibility on Stack Overflow, just not with a nice screenshot and relating to Eclipse, not CCS variant of Eclipse. Here is my screenshot. There is no C/C++ node, just JavaScript.

No. As I could not read the text and did not even know that the blue smudge was text, I simply ignored it. The blue smudge just melted into the gray. I still cannot read the blue smudge, but will take your word for it that the smudge reads "Show Advanced Settings". Personally, I would have made the hyperlink gray on gray. In that way, that would be the ultimate in readability. Why stop at blue?

I clicked on the link and do see the option. I was right about 500 lines. :-) I changed it now to 50000. I checked and the 1646 lines is definitely within the 50000 line buffer, so I am fine now on that.

I am still in favor of gray on gray for the Moon Rise theme, infinitely easier on the eyes. It is bad enough that the console text is black on dark gray.

Thanks Anthony!
P.S. It sucks that I am not as observant as I would like to be. I should have been more observant and noticed the blue smudge. I thought that it was a design artifact, like a logo, so it never registered.

Sarah Weinberger said:

Does the build console output get written to disk?

The complete build log gets written to the workspace, in the file .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/<project-name>.build.log

Thank you for mentioning that. That link is very not obvious.

TI/Oracle/Eclipse should have added a button or link to the build file. It should be obvious. I was surprised that there was no log.

Sarah,

This tripped me up before too - but it's one of those things you remember after the first couple times you struggle with it. 

I'm not sure who owns this dialogue - might be something Aarti can comment on.

Anthony F. Seely said:

I'm not sure who owns this dialogue - might be something Aarti can comment on.

Anthony,

If you are referring to how the "Show Advanced Settings" link looks in the Moonrise theme, then that is coming from the Eclipse theme and not CCS. 

A person not affiliated with Oracle or the Eclipse product team (I think) wrote the Moon Rise and Moon Rise (standalone) themes. I went to the Eclipse Marketplace and searched for the theme. I wanted a look similar to Microsoft Visual Studio dark theme, so that was the first thing that I did. Nobody from Texas Instruments owns the color, although the Eclipse team could come out with a Visual Studio theme integrated by default.

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I just checked Eclipse, not CCS, and the product DOES NOT have a "Show Advanced Settings" link. The Windows Preferences dialog automatically shows EVERYTHING. That was why it never occurred to me to look for a link. Why? Eclipse shows everything, so therefore CCS should too, as CCS is basically Eclipse, just $795 more expensive. As such, the fault is NOT Moon Rise, but rather Texas Instruments, since other vendors would not create a link element for a dialog that has no links.

TI in trying to simplify things made things more complicated. They changed the default behavior of Eclipse, so that anyone familiar with Eclipse would not know to click a blue smudge. (Blue smudges are not text. They are graphic elements that people gloss over.) Even had I seen a text link there, I would never have thought to click on that. Why?

The fault is with TI, and TI should eliminate the link and just add the extra stuff. By the way, TI did not even add all that much stuff, only a few more nodes, which in the aggregate is a heck of a lot less than Eclipse.

As long as I am venting, HalCoGen needs copy and paste functionality along with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. It is annoying that it does not have that.