Output Messages Window

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Currently, ParaView's Output Window for messages from its internal code are text only, presenting the whole information that may be useful to a developer. The current output window has several drawbacks: - A message always contains the whole information, making it hard for users that do not

 need that to extract the relevant parts.

- If messages are reported several times from the application, they are

 printed several times in the output window.

As an example we show the output window after an nonexistent variable is typed in the Calculator window.

Output-window-original.jpg

We plan to redesign the Output Window to address these issues as follows. By default,

Output-window-short.jpg

Output-window-long.jpg