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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 04:34:47PM +0200, jp charras wrote:
> [[snip]]
> This window is needed to show messages from python scripts, because 
> all
> python scripts print info messages for users, and error messages about
> erroneous parameters.

There really should be another way to handle this. Users don't seed "Python scripts", they see "footprint wizards", and having to read console output is just going to scare them off. Scripts meant to be of a high enough quality to distribute should have a proper IO mechanism for interacting with the user without dumping to a console.

It would be unacceptable for kicad proper to display error messages by fprintf'ing them to stderr, why is it acceptable for the bits written in Python?


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Chris