Long errors will get trimmed by Android about shadereditor HOT 11 OPEN

Well, if all four were to be implemented, would that solve this problem? Feel free to suggest improvements.

1. A Toast appears for the first error
2. All erroneous get the dark red background
3. A panel to show all errors that when clicked move the cursor there
4. An icon that conditionally shows up in the top bar when there are errors that shows how many errors there are. When clicked, it opens the error panel

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what is that 🫠

Looks like the OpenGL implementation on my phone doesn't like ternary operations with custom structs.

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No, the Toast cannot be enlarged, unfortunately. From Toast redesign:

In Android 12, the toast view has been redesigned. Toasts are now limited to two lines of text and show the application icon next to the text.

A modern alternative would be a Bottom Sheet, I guess.

And about the missing error message: these come directly from the OpenGL driver on the phone, and yes, they can be very different or even completely missing 🤷‍♂️ Unfortunately, there's nothing the app can do about this. Apart from including a GLSL compiler/linter, which would be overkill, of course.

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Another alternative would be to make the top bar draggable and move the full error messages there. Then one can additionally keep the old behavior of creating a Toast for the first error.

Here is a recording of my (crude) shader-editor app I made a few years ago:

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Yes, this would be another option, indeed!

My only concern would be that a user would have to know that he/she can pull down the top bar for more information 🤔

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That's also what I thought when creating this. I have rounded the bottom corners a bit to show that it is a bigger surface (because the top has no rounded corners), but adding another handle icon (like iphone X's bottom handle for navigation) could help UX as well. Also a Problems icon could conditionally show up that opens the problems section when pressed.

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It would be nice to have the errors show up without giving away the focus from the editor, so if you have a bunch of errors you don't have to jump between the error view and the editor.

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Well, if all four were to be implemented, would that solve this problem? Feel free to suggest improvements.

This application sorely needs these updates.

A single error message, displayed via a temporary toast of finite length, is the worst possible solution for this scenario, at any rate.

This should be a high priority issue.

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