In LR 3 SDK, it appears that errors don't display the error dialog if they occur in button-action functions or observer functions invoked as the result of some user action on a control. This makes debugging quite tedious.  I have a solution, but it seems heavy handed and I'm wondering if I'm missing something simple? For example, in Sample Plugins\helloworld.lrdevplugin\CustomDialogWithObserver.lua, modify "myCalledFunction" to raise an error:     local function myCalledFunction()         outputToLog( "props.myObservedString has been updated." )         error "Example of an internal error" The error will cause the observer function to terminate immediately without displaying the error dialog. My heavy-handed solution is to wrap all button and observer functions with LrFunctionContext.callWithContext() and use LrDialogs.attachErrorDialogToFuntionContext.  To make that easy, I use this utility function to wrap any function with callWithContext(): local function showErrors (func)     return function (...)         LrFunctionContext.callWithContext("wrapped",             function (context)                 LrDialogs.attachErrorDialogToFunctionContext (context)                 func (unpack (arg))                 end)         end     end For example, here's how to wrap the action function of a button:      viewFactory:push_button {title = "Search", action = showErrors (searchPush)} Is there an easier way, e.g. some call or configuration setting I've missed? ... View more

The forum software evidently believes "bucket" is a dirty word, as in "Photoshop Elements' Paint Bucket tool".  (B u c k e t).   See this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/434983?tstart=0 ... View more

Until all the problems with email replies are fixed, could you remove "reply to this email (recommended)" from the bottom of emails sent to thread participants?  That is, instead of: To post a reply to the thread message, either reply to this email (recommended) or visit the message page: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1969187#1969187 have it read: To post a reply to the thread message, visit the message page: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1969187#1969187 This will cut down on the number of times that we have to ask people to post their replies on the Web because the forum software is mangling their email replies.  As a side effect, when we tell them to use the camera icon rather than attachments, they'll be more likely to know what we're talking about. Recommending that people use a buggy feature is causing needless trouble. ... View more

Others have probably observed as well that after the forum upgrade, attachments are still getting queued for a long time, e.g. the attachment in this post has been queued for almost two hours: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/433930?tstart=0 (The attachment posted 9:56 AM PDT, it's now 11:49 AM PDT.) Is there an ETA on a fix for this?  If it's going to be awhile, can attachments just be disabled until it's fixed? ... View more

To restrict searches to posts by particular users, you’re forced to use the Who field of the More Options of search.   But the Who field has several serious design flaws, making it likely that many people will have problems using it: 1. The Who field requires that you enter a screen name, not first/last name. The accompanying help and search tips don’t tell you that.  Most users are going to enter the name they see appearing in the message, but if the poster has set the profile option, her first/last name appears instead (E.g. “Barbara Brundage” instead of “Barbara B.”, “John Ellis” instead of “johnrellis”).  This is more likely to occur with frequent contributors.   2. It is very difficult to find the screen name of a member who has chosen to show first/last name. The only reliable way I’ve found to find a member’s screen name is to reply to a message she’s posted and click Quote Previous Message (don’t forget to type a space first).  The member’s public profile doesn’t show the screen name.   Searching for people by checking the People checkbox displays first/last.  You can try to use the incremental search in the Who field, if you have a guess as to what a person’s screen name might be (which can be hard). If you get too many incremental-search results, they’ll overlap with the search results below and all except the first few names are unreadable. 3. If you enter an invalid screen name, it is ignored entirely with no error message. Combined with problem 1, this leads you to think that the Who field just doesn’t work. If you wait for a couple seconds after typing in the Who field, the incremental results will confirm that you’ve typed a valid name.  But quick typists are going to move to another field or hit enter to start the search well before the incremental results appear (especially when the forum servers are responding slowly).    I didn’t even discover the incremental search until I’d done many Who searches. 4. Case of the Who field is significant. “Barbara B.” works; “barbara b.” is ignored silently.  This will lead people to think the Who field doesn’t work, since almost all search facilities on the Web ignore case by default. ... View more

Searching for "virus scanning forums ellis" fails to find a message I posted containing all of the search terms: But searching for "virus scanning forums", without the term "ellis", does find the message: Google also finds the message with the full query, "virus scanning forums ellis". ... View more

The forum-search query "icc profiles ilford paper", with the forum "Photoshop Elements" selected, does not find the following message: http://forums.adobe.com/message/1520276#1520276 Re: ICC Profiles I just purchased some ILFORD paper and I downloaded and installed the ICC profile into Windows Vista without any problems. My question is when I open my printer properties and select a paper profile my ILFORD ICC profile is not showing. I have a Canon Pro9000 printer. However, this Google query does: icc profiles ilford paper photoshop elements site:forums.adobe.com Sigh, in general I'm finding it faster and more reliable to use Google to search not only Adobe forums, but the knowledge base and the rest of the Adobe site as well. Also, the message above is definitely indexed by the forum search engine, since you can retrieve it using the following query: subject:"icc profiles" ilford paper Of course, at the time I was searching, I didn't know which keywords were in the subject and which were in the body. ... View more