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Close compilation/upload error notifications on subsequent actions #1154

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@per1234

Describe the request

Automatically close compilation and upload error notifications when a subsequent compilation or upload is triggered.

🙂 The user will only be presented with relevant notifications.

Describe the current behavior

The Arduino IDE opens a notification when compilation or upload of a sketch fails. This is an excellent way of supplementing the more verbose and cryptic error messages shown in the "Output" view.

Although very valuable in the time after a failed compilation or upload, this notification is no longer relevant when a subsequent compilation/upload is triggered, since at that point the user is only interested in what the result will be of the current operation.

Currently, the notifications of errors from previous compilations/uploads are retained until the user manually closes them, which some might not think to do.

  1. Create a sketch that will fail to compile:

    #error
    void setup() {}
    void loop() {}
  2. Select Sketch > Verify/Compile from the Arduino IDE menus.

  3. Wait for compilation to finish.
    🙂 A notification clearly communicates that there was a compilation error:

    ❌ Compilation error: #error

  4. Fix the problem with the sketch:

    void setup() {}
    void loop() {}
  5. Select Sketch > Verify/Compile from the Arduino IDE menus.

  6. Wait for compilation to finish.
    There are now two notifications, shown in this order:

    ⓘ Done Compiling

    ❌ Compilation error: #error

The "Done Compiling" notification does not clearly indicate a successful result. It also disappears after 3 seconds while the "Compilation error" notification is persistent.

🙁 It may not be clear to the user that the current compilation or upload was successful.

This is what the IDE looks like at the completion of a successful upload following some expected struggles:

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Arduino IDE version

2.0.0-rc8-snapshot-1073c3f

Operating system

Windows

Operating system version

10

Additional context

Originally reported at https://forum.arduino.cc/t/imperfection-improvement/1010339

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