[SoC] Sextante algorithm execution dialog: new log pane, nicer error messages. Persistent recent algorithm list.

[Victor Olaya]

Excellent work by Camilo this week. Very good ideas added to the SEXTANTE core.

I am very happy with this last week of work :-)



2012/8/10 Camilo Polymeris <cpolymeris at gmail.com>:
> Hello all,
> this is a copy of the report found at http://sextante-gsoc.blogspot.com/
> "
> This week was finally a more productive, in my opinion. I have added a
> Log pane to the algorithm execution dialog, including a lot of info
> useful for debugging algorithms and, in particular, models.
> Besides the usual information, which is also shown above the progress
> bar and error messages, this pane shows the exact commandline, the
> console output and debug information (in blue in the screenshot[1]).
> These can be turned off from the Sextante options dialog, and are
> available for the modeler, SAGA, GRASS, OTB and, hopefully today, R.
> Note that this panel is only shown in threaded execution mode, or if
> you set the dialog to not automatically close on algorithm completion.
> Also, this dialog now features nicer error reporting, in my opinion,
> when possible using the progress label instead of blocking popups and
> highlighting missing parameter values, as [shown here: 1].
> I hope this helps identify bugs when developing for Sextante and
> designing models.
> Another, albeit unrelated, addition to the Sextante UI experience this
> week is that now the "recently used algorithms" list is persistent
> between sessions, a simple change that I find very practical.
>
> One issue I encountered this week was that the test suite stopped to
> work. This, seemingly, because I updated the qgis core. This might
> have introduced changes in the interface that I haven't been able to
> identify, yet.
> "
>
> Comments are appreciated,
> Camilo
>
> [1] http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ebyOyiVGxa8/UCV1B_YKFVI/AAAAAAAAEpk/Liu1XQgCfcU/s1600/newdialog.png
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