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RE: [cdt-core-dev] Current Project Feature
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Glad to see that this is provoking some debate. I've inserted some
comments below:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Fletcher [mailto:ThomasF@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 June 2004 16:39
> To: 'cdt-core-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx'
> Cc: Alexiev, Dobrin
> Subject: RE: [cdt-core-dev] Current Project Feature
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> A couple of things come to mind about your usage case:
>
> 1) Isn't this actually the goal of the "Debug As ..." selection?
> If the current selection can't be derived to a project, then it
> should auto-prompt you for your selection. The CDT already
provides
> a basic implementation, and if you have something more customized
> then you can add your own launcher to this.
The problem that we have also affects the "Debug As..." feature. Our
users usually have at least two projects open - a system library and an
application. We also have several types of launches (hardware,
instruction set simulator, modelsim). If you debug your application,
then it's very common to end up stepping through code in the system
library project (which is a generated project and not really designed to
be altered by the user). If you finish debugging and try to create a
new launch configuration for one of the other types of launch, it's very
common to find that eclipse thinks that the active project is the system
library and it populates the launch configuration with that project by
default. When really the user is wanting to create a configuration for
one of their application projects. Having a user selectable "active
project" would avoid this problem. It would mean that the default
project used by new launch configurations would not be focus dependent.
> 2) In Eclipse 3.0 they have moved the Debug As .../Run As ...
> to the right click context menu for resources so that you won't
> need this anymore.
Have they removed this from the Menu bar as well? Or is it still
possible to access it in the same way as before?
> Just wanted to make sure you already knew what facilities were
available
> to you.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
