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Show exception details window issue

Started by Mark on 7,517 views

The show exception dialog has a section at the bottom which gives the assertion output. This window however does not have a good way of scrolling to see long content (only thing I know of is that you can put the cursor in the window and up/down through the section). I've noticed that the mouse wheel will not work in that window and there is no scroll bar. The way I typically end up getting any info out of there is to use ctrl+a to select all, followed by ctrl-c and paste it into notepad. It's also misleading that there is no indication that the content actually extends past the contents shown in the window.

Edit: I thought Ctrl-A works but apparently it doesn't so I have been relying on mouse selection and that it leaves the selection between going into the windows.

Summary of Desires:
1) Show Exception Detail window, add scroll bar to bottom pane.
2) Support mouse wheel scrolling in that window pane.
edit:
3) Support Ctrl-A in that window.

Thanks again,
Mark Smith

Edited

The show exception dialog wasn't really designed to provide large amounts of trace information from a failing test - this information is best analysed by navigating to the failing test in the Tests Window and viewing the output there. Still, I don't see any reason why it couldn't be enhanced to be more usable. Thanks for the feedback!
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