Re: [Gnash-dev] More verbose error output in plugin

[strk]

Hi Micheal,
what you're asking would be best implemented as a 'view logs'
GTK window. Benjamin has been looking at it some time ago but
never handled to complete the project due to other priorities 
on the list.

Nonetheless Ben added support for popping up windows and it
should already work for well-defined malfunctioning (media decoding
most noticeably).

Now, adding more cases for a popup could help here, but it must
be very carefully analized what's worth notifying or the risk
is to get way TOO much notifications (and sometimes for nothing as
some SWF application keep working just with minor disturbances
for some unimplemented things).

Probably a good candidate would be 'ABC' code at this time (movies
requiring the virtual machine version 2).

Willing to provide a patch ?

--strk;


On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:33:16AM +0100, Michael T wrote:
> 
> Dear Gnash developers,
> 
> This is a feature request for the Gnash browser plugin.  It would be nice if, 
> when
> Gnash can't play a file due to unsupported opcodes or similar, it would 
> display text
> on the lines of "Gnash can't play this file (http://foo.bar/file) because it 
> uses
> the unsupported XXX and YYY and ZZZ Flash commands.  You may wish to contact 
> the
> authors of the web page about this issue". - rather than just showing a black
> window.  It would increase the chances of pages on the web being made Gnash-
> compatible, which would probably increase Gnash uptake (and the number of 
> people
> interested in contributing).
> 
> Regards and thanks for a great piece of software,
> 
> Michael
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