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

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

Hmm.

I went to https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib
Clicked Wiki which took me to: https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib/wiki
Clicked Documentation which took me to: https://github.com/Hamlib/Hamlib/wiki/Documentation
Clicked HTML API Reference (v 4.3) which took me to: https://hamlib.sourceforge.net/manuals/4.3/index.html
Clicked Modules to https://hamlib.sourceforge.net/manuals/4.3/modules.html
Clicked "Rig (transceiver) API” to https://hamlib.sourceforge.net/manuals/4.3/group__rig.html
Clicked rig.c to https://hamlib.sourceforge.net/manuals/4.3/rig_8c.html

rigerror(int errnum) is there but not rigerror2

I’m obviously finding the wrong thing but it’s a bit of a puzzle.

Thanks for your help though. Can you give me the link to the documentation page with rigerror2()?

Peter

> On 2 Sep 2025, at 7:06 pm, George Baltz <geo...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> 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...> <mailto: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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