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

[George B. <geo...@gm...>]

You should find it already is in the latest docs - as Nate said, you 
were looking at a very old version.

On 9/1/25 8:30 PM, Peter Marks wrote:
> Thanks George. You are very kind.
>
> For some reason it has taken me a while to figure out that the 
> SourceForge project is no longer the active one.
>
> I’ll raise a ticket asking that rigerror2 be added to the API reference
>
> 73,
>
> Peter
> VK3TPM.
>
>> On 2 Sep 2025, at 10:25 am, George Baltz <geo...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Forgot to answer your other comment - the ticketing system(and other 
>> admin stuff) was moved from sourceforge to github.com -
>>
>> https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib
>>
>> 73, n3gb
>>
>> On 8/31/25 5:58 PM, Peter Marks wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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