Issue 9: Better scrolling text pane for console output and data refresh
Status:  Fixed
Owner:
Closed:  Jan 2010
Project Member Reported by kris.west@gmail.com, Jan 20, 2010
Put console output in a scrolling text pane on job output page (so page
length remains constant).
Investigate simple JS components for this - needs to not fully redraw with
each update.
May need to offer a service that gets output from Meandre (only full output
is retrievable) and converts into a stream. Store stream position so new
output can be efficiently clipped to add to the stream.



Jan 20, 2010
Project Member #1 zgg...@gmail.com
Do we need to have this console output for every situation
(running/finish/error/etc.)  or only while the jobs is running (maybe error)? 
Jan 21, 2010
Project Member #2 kris.west@gmail.com
I suspect user will need to review output in all running/finished/error states so
full output needs to be avaialable at all times. However, while running it may be
prudent to use a circular array (so say 1000 lines of scrollback are available).
However, on completed runs (finished or error states) full output would be desirable
and could be handled differently (particularly if it saves mem).
Jan 23, 2010
Project Member #3 zgg...@gmail.com
I am working on it.  Currently, the console is in a textarea that takes the fixed size. 

Its refresh frequency decays over time. It is not ideal yet.  I guess we can leave
the problem of refresh to later when we convert all other parts in the page into AJAX
and have a full approach of this in the whole page instead of patching this part alone.  
Status: Started
Jan 26, 2010
Project Member #4 kumarami...@gmail.com
This is mostly fixed, it needs an overhaul though. Would be much better once we move
the calls to ajax, right now it's a mish-mash.
Status: Fixed
Owner: zggame