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

["James Langley" <jlangley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This would certainly be my hope.  I suspect that CDT users are more
affected by the loose concept of active project than JDT users, so it
may be harder to sell the idea to the wider eclipse community and that
could make it a no go.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lott, Jeremiah [mailto:jeremiah.lott@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 21 June 2004 16:09
To: cdt-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cdt-core-dev] Current Project Feature

It seems to me that this is something that should affect all projects,
not just CDT projects.  I'm pretty sure that the JDT would also have
this problem, and so any solution would (hopefully) make it into the
platform eventually.  Also it would help with consistency when
developing in a mixed Java/C environment to have the same behavior for
both.

  Jeremiah Lott
  TimeSys Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: James Langley [mailto:jlangley@xxxxxxxxxx] 
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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