Semi-Automated Feedback

[kimpira]

I've noticed that in the compatiblity/bug report forums, a common issue is getting the people reporting bugs to correctly & completely report their configuration info.

Would it be possible to create a "Report Bug/Compatiblity Issue" menu item to automate the sending of that sort of information, along with a text box to describe what the problem was?

It would likely improve the quality and amount of feedback.

Unrelated, but I'd also like a confirmation dialogue when quitting, 'cause I've accidentally hit ESC a couple of times and killed my game.

[Ultima]

Nope, there's no way unless someone writes a separate script that saves to a database of sorts. The reason we can't do this is because we don't have access to the proboards servers to modify files.

[kimpira]

I wasn't suggesting that this take place via proboards.

What I'm suggesting could even be only for the developer(s) of the program, as it would allow for automated organization/filtering of feedback, even if only by packaging up the data in xml format and sending it to a predesignated e-mail address.

And were debugging data to be reported in something like xml format, it would be easy enough to dump it into a database should a server with php/mysql (or whatever) ever become available.