[Hamlib-developer] Feature request: User friendly version of errors

[Peter M. <pet...@gm...>]

Dear Hamlib developers,

I don’t seem to be able to create a feature request ticket on sourceforge. The button is dim.

When hamlib reports an error, typically a timeout talking to the radio, the error string returned by rigerror() is very detailed and includes a stack trace.

const char* rigerror <https://hamlib.sourceforge.net/manuals/1.2.15/group__rig.html#ga675d0903517323b2689446d9513fc8db>	(	int 	errnum	)	
get string describing the error code


I’m involved in the FreeDV <https://freedv.org/> project which uses hamlib. We show the error string and find that it is intimidating to users. They sometimes report that FreeDV has “crashed”.

It would be great if there was a second version of the error string with just the bit that the user needs. “Timeout talking to rig” for example.

Many thanks for your great work.

Peter
VK3TPM