RE: [cdt-core-dev] Current Project Feature

["Recoskie, Chris" <crecoskie@xxxxxx>]

Actually, to clarify, yes, the user selects a menu/context menu item to
set the active project explicitly to what they want.

We are planning on using this to facilitate a way of auto-generating a
debug launch configuration so that our users can have one-click
debugging of their currently active project.  Since our current product
that we are working on is very simple and is only going to be supporting
one hardware target (for now), this will work for us as all the debug
configuration parameters can be setup properly without user
intervention.  If the user needs to tweak some things then they can
delve deeper via config dialogs, etc.

Down the road we are going to have to deal with a more comprehensive
product environment where many different debuggable targets co-exist.
Hence we are very interested in 65471 and how we can apply that to our
concept of active project and one-click debug.

Guess I better rush out and patent one-click debugging... hah, just
kidding!

___________________________________________
 
Chris Recoskie
Software Designer
IDE Frameworks Group
Texas Instruments, Toronto
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-core-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-core-dev-
> admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Langley
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 10:47 AM
> To: cdt-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Alexiev, Dobrin
> Subject: RE: [cdt-core-dev] Current Project Feature
> 
> That certainly sounds interesting.  I'd quite like to see that taken a
> step further and have the user be able to specify what they'd like the
> active project to be.  At the moment I find I have to think too hard
> about what the active project is.  On the other hand, as you point
out,
> it might be that this is too much of a shift from the current
behaviour
> and no one will want that changed.  In which case what you're working
on
> sounds like an interesting half-way house that at least makes it
clearer
> to the user what the active project is.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Recoskie, Chris [mailto:crecoskie@xxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 June 2004 15:40
> To: cdt-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Alexiev, Dobrin
> Subject: RE: [cdt-core-dev] Current Project Feature
> 
> One of our folks at TI, Dobrin Alexiev, is working on exactly such a
> feature as we speak.  Right now it just uses a simple text decorator
to
> display "[Active]" next to the active project.
> 
> If other people think this would be of use we certainly wouldn't mind
> contributing it.  So far however, we are working on the assumption
that
> no one wanted the current launch configuration paradigm disturbed.
> 
> ___________________________________________
> 
> Chris Recoskie
> Software Designer
> IDE Frameworks Group
> Texas Instruments, Toronto
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cdt-core-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cdt-core-dev-
> > admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Langley
> > Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 6:59 AM
> > To: cdt-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [cdt-core-dev] Current Project Feature
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question/comment that I would welcome feedback on.  At the
> > moment, Eclipse/CDT seems to have a slightly strange concept of what
> the
> > current project is.  In that it depends on the currently selected
item
> > in the GUI.  This leads to some confusing behaviour, especially when
> > creating launch configurations, where the project that gets
populated
> > into the project field of most configurations depends on where the
> focus
> > was when the configuration was created.  This means that sometimes
no
> > project is considered to be selected at all (for example when the
> focus
> > is in the console).  As a personal preference I would prefer to have
> the
> > concept of the current project as a user setting, in a similar way
to
> > Visual Studio for example.  But this has some interesting
interaction
> > with the concept of having several launch configurations for the
same
> > project.  It would also affect the behaviour of the Run toolbar
button
> > and menu item.
> >
> > My question is I suppose twofold:
> >
> > 1) Does anyone else find this to be a nuisance?
> > 2) Does anyone else work around this and have a concept of a current
> > project?
> >
> > Hopefully this will spark some interesting debate.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any comments,
> >
> > James Langley
> > Senior Software Engineer
> > Altera European Technology Centre
> >
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