[brailleblaster] Re: Catching exceptions that occur anywhere: was Re: Re: Braille Fonts
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:43:08 -0600
Right on both counts. The pop-up would be for exceptions that the
developers haven't thought of or that are irrecoverable.
Tshould there be an org.brailleblaster.Log class?
John
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 07:04:10PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> You probably don't want to pop up a dialog for every exception. Some
> exceptions can be recovered from with no ill effects to the user. In such
> cases a pop-up dialog would be very annoying.
>
> There should however be a way to log exceptions so that it is possible to
> diagnose them.
>
>
> Keith Creasy
> Software Developer
> American Printing House for the Blind
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 1:59 PM
> To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [brailleblaster] Catching exceptions that occur anywhere: was Re:
> Re: Braille Fonts
>
> This is a start. Are you saying that a try block and a catch for the Class
> Exception in main will catch any exception in the program? All I want the
> dialog box to do is print the exception message and maybe tell where to
> contact the developers. When the OK button is pressed, then BrailleBlaster
> should terminate.
>
> John
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 05:16:45PM +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> > Short answer yes.
> >
> > Longer answer is depends how much work you want to spend on it.
> >
> > Simply put, have a try/catch block catching all exceptions/errors
> > (exercise: find the class all exceptions and errors inherit from) at
> > the appropriate level (may be even in public static void main,
> > although you may find recovering from there is difficult) and have
> > code within the catch block which gets the exception information and
> > puts it inside a message box and does what it can to recover if possible.
> >
> > Michael Whapples
> > On 25/01/2013 15:56, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > >Hi Brandon,
> > >What class is this dialog in? I'll have a look at BBIni . When I get
> > >this dialog BrailleBlaster terminates.
> > >
> > >Is there a way to make the program pop up a dialog box when an
> > >exception occurs instead of just quitting?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >John
> > >
> > >On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 09:48:32AM -0500, Brandon Roller wrote:
> > >>John,
> > >>I have seen that dialog too.
> > >>I think there are bugs in the BBIni.java file and how it finds a
> > >>path to the BB directory.
> > >>So the braille fonts are there, it's just that the correct path was
> > >>not established on initialization.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>-Brandon
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Vic Beckley
> > >><vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >>wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>John,
> > >>>
> > >>>Strange. I'm not getting this. I am also running from the latest
> > >>>repository.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>-----Original Message-----
> > >>>From: brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>>[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J.
> > >>>Boyer
> > >>>Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 8:59 AM
> > >>>To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >>>Subject: [brailleblaster] Braille Fonts
> > >>>
> > >>>I have just updated to the latest newdesign repository. When I run
> > >>>BrailleBlaster to debug the crash I get a dialog saying that the
> > >>>Braille font cannot be found. Whatever font this is, it should be
> > >>>in the fonts directory in the repository, since it won't change.
> > >>>
> > >>>I see from the liblouis list that there is a font to display dot
> > >>>patterns for Unicode Braille. Do we have this? If not, it should
> > >>>also be in the fonts directory.
> > >>>
> > >>>Thanks,
> > >>>John
> > >>>
> > >>>--
> > >>>John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft,
> > >>>Inc.
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> > >>>Madison, Wisconsin USA
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> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> >
>
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> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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> Developing software for people with disabilities
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http://www.abilitiessoft.com
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