A few days ago I found another rare BlackBerry bug. I was playing with some list elements and everything was working fine until I ran the code on a BlackBerry Curve 8300.

I was suddenly presented with this popup.



I have never seen this error so I googled for it. Unfortunately there was no reasonable explanation. So I decided to investigate it.
First thing I did was to take a peek at the event log. I did it by pressing ALT+L+G+L+G and I got this.



Taking a look at the exception trace showed this.



I needed to see the full log for details, so I used

javaloader -u eventlog

More...

I found a nice script from Jeff Sharkey that formats nicely and in color the adb logcat.
Unfortunately Jeffs script works only on *ix so I decided to make a port to Windows.

Here is a screenshot of the adb logcat without color

And here a screenshot of the the adb logcat with color

As you can see, the colored adb logcat is a huge improvement.

To easily use the code, copy the files color_console.py, coloredlogcat.py and logcat.bat to your Android SDK/platform-tools path like c:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools\logcat.bat. Now, instead of running "adb logcat" just run "logcat".

Please be gentile with the code as I am not a Python programmer :)

You can download the files here colored_logcat.zip (3 KB)

Thanks go to
Jeff Sharkey
André Burgaud
ActiveState for ActivePython

EDIT: The version required for ActivePython is 2.6 not the newest one.

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