Feature Request

I did have an idea this morning...

To better suite our customers (:laugh:) what if we had a "Create Log Files" button on the config panel (or extras) that would grab any relevant log files, the <machine>.ini, <machine>.hal, <machine>_connections.hal, and any other relevant files and package them up nicely into a zip file with the date and time, and put them in an easy to find location.

That way when people post their problems on here, we could have a sticky that says "before posting, create a log file to upload with your post". That would go a long way to save time diagnosing stuff, and it would make it easier to get all the helpful files in one swoop.

Just a thought...

snowgoer540 wrote: I did have an idea this morning...

Oh no... :ohmy:

To better suite our customers (:laugh:) what if we had a "Create Log Files" button on the config panel (or extras) that would grab any relevant log files, the <machine>.ini, <machine>.hal, <machine>_connections.hal, and any other relevant files and package them up nicely into a zip file with the date and time, and put them in an easy to find location.

That way when people post their problems on here, we could have a sticky that says "before posting, create a log file to upload with your post". That would go a long way to save time diagnosing stuff, and it would make it easier to get all the helpful files in one swoop.

That just makes too much sense.

Edit: do all distros have the same compression utilities?

Don't you just love it :laugh:

I'm really looking forward to the final release of V2.8 becasue that will slow you guys down for a while as your crazy ideas will have to sit in the corner for a while unless we run master branch and then its open slather! :woohoo: :woohoo:

phillc54 wrote: Edit: do all distros have the same compression utilities?

As far as i know, only RAR files need additional install on some distros. TAR is native to Linux, i think.

phillc54 wrote:

snowgoer540 wrote: I did have an idea this morning...

Oh no... :ohmy:

To better suite our customers (:laugh:) what if we had a "Create Log Files" button on the config panel (or extras) that would grab any relevant log files, the <machine>.ini, <machine>.hal, <machine>_connections.hal, and any other relevant files and package them up nicely into a zip file with the date and time, and put them in an easy to find location.

That way when people post their problems on here, we could have a sticky that says "before posting, create a log file to upload with your post". That would go a long way to save time diagnosing stuff, and it would make it easier to get all the helpful files in one swoop.

That just makes too much sense.

Edit: do all distros have the same compression utilities?

Well I'm happy to do my part on the testing end lol

I am really not sure. I guess we'd be looking at Buster and Mint?