... speaking of water: I'm afraid I'll water down my questions by adding to my list in the same thread -- and before I get the first response. As another "oh yeah":

10) BIAB has these little yellow windows that show up and often have useful information to guide you through a warning, an FYI, or other such subtle "pardon me, I have something you may want to know". Now I find these messages useful particularly when writing down notes that get destroyed in a fire. But fire aside - these notes would be great to cut/paste to place in an email or forum so that it would be easy to search for the same phrase in these messages/errors or get technical support. The bug in this - or problem - is that the windows cannot be touched or they go away. And they already go away. All you can do is capture a screen shot which takes up more space and takes more effort to deal with than the text. Not to mention the affect on the ozone and what not as the dominoes fall no doubt on top of something else more important and philosophical.

... what I remember from the notes I no longer have are the following suggestions:

a) Perhaps add a "console" window where all messages that pop up and go away are also echoed to the console -- which is just a text window -- that you can cut/paste and maybe search if you want to and maybe clear if you want to. Lots of complicated software has this and some folks online say BIAB fits that bill. Might as well join the bandwagon. It would be useful to have all of the messages saved in a place where you could grab them -- the console is one idea and conforms with other software paradigms -- but a log file would be another way. Maybe I haven't found it.

b) Or perhaps allow windows to be clicked on and doing so would instead of hiding it would freeze it so it wouldn't go away allowing to cut/paste the information. With an "X" to remove it. I like this idea less as sometimes I miss windows. I know the timing can be changed -- but I do not want to clutter the space with windows waiting to retire due to a long timeout that ensures I do not miss anything.

c) Other ways ... there are plenty of ways to recapture a missed opportunity to help facilitate communication around what these windows present.

Jason

1/1/2024 - Win 10 BIAB 2019 64bit Build (644), RealBand 2019 (4)
Prior - Sig can't fit a running list - so just showing current version