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"dirty files "? [message #1778560]

Sun, 17 December 2017 16:25

Anne Creek

Messages: 275
Registered: September 2014

Senior Member

Here is a project basic compile / run sequence
Build Project
Run as configuration x
Run
Project runs OK.

Now change code with LEGAL syntax and do
Run as configuration x
Get a dialogue to Save changes
Run
Project runs OK.

Now change code with ILLEGAL , WRONG syntax and do

Run as configuration x
compilation fails as it should

Now change code to previous AKA remove the ILLEGAL code.
Run as configuration x
Configuration reports - program does not exist.

Do
Build Project
compiler reports error - because it is still using the wrong syntax code

The corrected coder has not been saved / identified.

The only way to correct is to do
File ->Save all and than
Build project
etc.

Now I do not expect the IDE to guess but is this NORMAL behaviour NOT to verify if the project file TEXT has changed AKA the file is now "dirty" ?

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Re: "dirty files "? [message #1792689 is a reply to message #1778560]

Sat, 21 July 2018 23:43

Jonathan Gossage

Messages: 71
Registered: March 2010
Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Try the following and see if it gives you the control you want:

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Re: "dirty files "? [message #1792703 is a reply to message #1792689]

Sun, 22 July 2018 18:32

Patrick Moran

Messages: 141
Registered: March 2018

Senior Member

A quick work-around may be to restart your computer. I've seen some error conditions, usually signified by a big red filled circle and no explanatory words, solved by clearing computer RAM (and maybe some other stuff, I don't know) in this way.

Usually my problems arise because the invisible files Eclipse put into your workspace have garbage of some kind in them. If I saw a problem like yours, I would make a new workspace from my computer's directory system, and copy the project I had trouble with to the new workspace. Then I would go back into Eclipse and change workspace. In the workspace I'd just created I then have to import the project.

Eclipse does not recover gracefully from some compiler errors, so I have learned the hard way to keep backup copies (preferably on another disk in and in locked form) for anything that I get to work. It also seems worthwhile to move to new workspaces frequently.

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Re: "dirty files "? [message #1792710 is a reply to message #1792703]

Mon, 23 July 2018 05:25

Ed Merks

Messages: 33140
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

It's not even clear which language is being used, but I've never ( in 18 years) seen such problems with Java using JDT. I've never had to reboot my machine to fix some problem in the IDE nor have I ever seen JDT not recover gracefully from a compile error.

Of course if you have specific steps that reproduce such a problem, ones with which I or someone else could reproduce it as well, then someone else could help or fix the problem.

Here's what I see with a simple Java project. I run a project's Java class with a main method, one that has no errors; of course it runs. I introduce an error and try to run it; it comes up with a dialog telling me there are errors in the project instead of just running it. I fix the error but forget to save; it comes up with a dialog suggesting I save before I launch. All seems to work nicely as I've come to expect. Your scenario must be something quite different, perhaps not even using Java...

Ed Merks
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Re: "dirty files "? [message #1792757 is a reply to message #1792710]

Mon, 23 July 2018 14:55

Tauno Voipio

Messages: 742
Registered: August 2014

Senior Member

The OP has been using CDT for cross-compilation to microcontrollers.

If I read the complaint correctly, he's not happy that the compiler does not see a source correction before the corrected file is saved. He should have a look at workspace properties 'Auto save before build'.

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Tauno Voipio

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