Floating Logging Toolbar for Background Status and Exception Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing logging tools require significant user intervention and cannot efficiently convey the recording status during background operations, leading to operational uncertainties and difficulties in managing logging processes.
Innovation Solution
An electronic apparatus and method that allows for background logging with a floating window toolbar featuring an enabling button and system exception capture buttons, enabling quick status checks and annotations, reducing operational uncertainties through movable operation and shrinkage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If the logging tool operates in the background, then logging can continue without user intervention, but the user cannot grasp the recording status and cannot perform functional operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential control and status elements from the main logging window and places them in a floating toolbar. This allows the logging process to run in the background while maintaining accessible controls and status display through the floating window, resolving the contradiction between automated background operation and user accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The floating toolbar can be dynamically positioned and resized on the screen, allowing users to access logging controls and status information at any time during background operation. The dynamic nature of the floating window enables flexible user interaction without interrupting the automated logging process.
2Productivity
If the logging tool runs in the background, then logging continues automatically, but the user experiences operational uncertainties and cannot perform functional operations
Solution Approach 1:
The floating toolbar provides continuous visual feedback about logging status, including timing information and operational state. This feedback mechanism maintains user confidence and reliability during background operation, allowing users to understand what is happening without interrupting the automated logging process.
Solution Approach 2:
By extracting critical status information and control functions into the floating toolbar, the system maintains reliability and user confidence while enabling continuous background logging. The separated control elements remain accessible and responsive to user actions.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention provides an electronic apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable record medium, and a logging method. The logging method is stored on the non-transitory computer-readable record medium and executed by the electronic apparatus. The method includes: recording a log into a log document with an enabling button; shrinking a program of the logging method to background with a shrinking button and generating a floating window toolbar, where the floating window toolbar includes the enabling button and at least one system exception capture button; determining whether the electronic apparatus has experienced an exception; executing an exception annotation with the at least one system exception capture button when a determining result is yes; storing the exception annotation into a time series of the log document; determining whether there is the exception annotation in the log document; and displaying a log segment corresponding to the exception annotation when a determining result is yes.