Machine selector generates many SRAM file not found messages

[grauw]

When using the machine selector UI I get a ton of "SRAM file not found" complaints in the message log, which pops up again and again after I close it as I continue browsing the machines. Seems these are generated as a result of the query for the machine information tooltip.

May want to clear out the SRAM files from your ~/.openMSX directory to reproduce that, since it seems to only occur once for every machine and then creates the SRAM file in my user dir.

Using Github actions build openmsx-19.1-571-ge11842aaa-mac-aarch64-bin.dmg.zip

[MBilderbeek]

Yes, this happens because the machines are actually instantiated. A similar thing is that for the extensions in some cases large files are created (e.g. empty HD images). But that doesn't give a pop-up I guess.

@m9710797 wouldn't it be better to make something to avoid this when we only want to instantiate for some queries?

[m9710797]

I agree. I'll put this on my TODO list.

[m9710797]

With a one-line change I could suppress the messages (revision 92a8dca).
However the SRAM files (typically for the RTC) and HD images are still being created.

• On the one hand that's fine. That also tests that those files really can be created (e.g. the directory is writable). And SRAM files don't take much space.
• On the other hand, empty HD images are also created. These are 100MB. Nowadays that's not a whole lot, but also not negligible.

[grauw]

Messages were previously silenced in 92a8dca, and now the “SRAM file not found, assuming blank content” message has also been removed altogether in f1bbc93.