[TSVN] Re: I blame you for my pain!

Hughes, Bill wrote:
>>> Also if one were to move the date and time into the log message
>>> pop-up then why not the author also?
>>
>> Because Blame does its colourizing based on rev and author, so I
>> would not want to take those 2 primary fields out of the display.
> No, *not* the rev, but if you move the other fields into the pop-up
> you only need the rev to do the colouring.

Not true. Colouring is based on rev _and_ author - look at the help
file. I think omitting the author would create more questions about why
the colouring appears inconsistent.

And of course the whole point of Blame is to find someone to throw
rotten tomatoes at, which is no good if they are hiding in the hint box
;-)

>> I'm keeping this simple. If you would like to supply a patch ...
> I'd love to, but I'm not in a position to do that, unfortunately.
> This may change (I hope), but not for now, apart from anything else I
> don't have Visual Studio.

Nor do I. I downloaded VC++ and the platform SDK from the MS web site.
However, I would not recommend that unless you have a unlimited
bandwidth and patience - its about 250MB. Maybe easier to order the
(allegedly) low cost CD.

> The other suggestion was to split the window into two panes, but this
> may be even more effort than adding a second window.
> In summary, I suggest having the (main) blame window showing the
> revision and line numbers in addition to the lines from the file. The
> comment, author, date and time could all be shown in the pop-up.
> A list of the revisions, with associated author, date and time could
> be shown in a pane within the blame window.

Adding _any_ windows control in TBlame is hard work because there is no
MFC to help you, just raw Windows API. That means you can do simple
changes using just the free tools, but it also limits the bigger
changes. Is this the GUI equivalent of assembler?

Simon

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