Open multiple log files simultaneously
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Ian Jennings
Why: We expect our investigations to require correlating logs at similar time stamps between log files for multiple apps (the test, the app and winappdriver)
Possible implementation: Move logs under the video and provide a "split" button to have two views
Possible implementation: A docking area that allows you to drag files from the IDE-like sidebar
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Ian Jennings
@tristan I wonder if "merging" log files by making multiple selections in the dropdown and showing them in a single timeline would fit your use case?
The suggested solution here is nice but imagine you'd like to display a 4th or 5th log file, or 10. It could get quite complex. My gut says that it will be difficult to follow what's going on in multiple live-scrolling log files in different tabs. Do you see 3 as a max?
What do you think?
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Tristan Labelle
Ian Jennings It's hard to say what the usability of merged logs would be like without using it. I would expect to have color-coding of which line comes from which log at least.
As for side-by-side, yes, there is diminishing returns to having more logs open simultaneously. But even with only two log panes, we can correlate multiple files by looking at two at a time and I think that would be very useful already so we might not need an arbitrary number of panes.
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Ian Jennings
under review