Ide Rio: "Compile" not only one project

[chkaufmann 17]

Hi,

 

I have a project group with four applications. Since I switched to Rio, using F9 or Ctrl-F9 sometimes goes wrong. "Logo12" is my active project but it compiles not only this one but one of the others as well. Here is my .grouproj file. I don't see anything, that could cause the problem:

 

<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
    <PropertyGroup>
        <ProjectGuid>{BAB4E504-1645-40A4-8EFD-7B3797E49F2A}</ProjectGuid>
    </PropertyGroup>
    <ItemGroup>
        <Projects Include="Logo12.dproj">
            <Dependencies/>
        </Projects>
        <Projects Include="Logo12Tests.dproj">
            <Dependencies/>
        </Projects>
        <Projects Include="Logo12Kuba.dproj">
            <Dependencies/>
        </Projects>
        <Projects Include="Logo12KubaDe.dproj">
            <Dependencies/>
        </Projects>
    </ItemGroup>
    <ProjectExtensions>
        <Borland.Personality>Default.Personality.12</Borland.Personality>
        <Borland.ProjectType/>
        <BorlandProject>
            <Default.Personality/>
        </BorlandProject>
    </ProjectExtensions>
    <Target Name="Logo12">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12.dproj"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Logo12:Clean">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12.dproj" Targets="Clean"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Logo12:Make">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12.dproj" Targets="Make"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Logo12Tests">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12Tests.dproj"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Logo12Tests:Clean">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12Tests.dproj" Targets="Clean"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Logo12Tests:Make">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12Tests.dproj" Targets="Make"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Logo12Kuba">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12Kuba.dproj"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Logo12Kuba:Clean">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12Kuba.dproj" Targets="Clean"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Logo12Kuba:Make">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12Kuba.dproj" Targets="Make"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Logo12KubaDe">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12KubaDe.dproj"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Logo12KubaDe:Clean">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12KubaDe.dproj" Targets="Clean"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Logo12KubaDe:Make">
        <MSBuild Projects="Logo12KubaDe.dproj" Targets="Make"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Build">
        <CallTarget Targets="Logo12;Logo12Tests;Logo12Kuba;Logo12KubaDe"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Clean">
        <CallTarget Targets="Logo12:Clean;Logo12Tests:Clean;Logo12Kuba:Clean;Logo12KubaDe:Clean"/>
    </Target>
    <Target Name="Make">
        <CallTarget Targets="Logo12:Make;Logo12Tests:Make;Logo12Kuba:Make;Logo12KubaDe:Make"/>
    </Target>
    <Import Project="$(BDS)\Bin\CodeGear.Group.Targets" Condition="Exists('$(BDS)\Bin\CodeGear.Group.Targets')"/>
</Project>

Any hints or tips what goes wrong?

 

Christian

[chkaufmann 17]

Am I the only one who ever saw this problem?

 

Christian

[Dalija Prasnikar 1341]

This is long standing issue... I even had bug report in old QC related to this.

 

Problem is not only that it compiles multiple projects when you only want one, but it messes up compile defines and you can end up with total mess in the resulting exe. I eventually gave up, and I no longer have multiple projects in a group. 

 

You can try filling bug report in QP and hope it will be solved one fine day.

[chkaufmann 17]

I tried this (only one project per group). But then I run into the problem that the IDE loads this project in a new group (ProjectGroup1.grouproj) the next time I start it and when I compile I have to save the group. Do you just work with .dproj files directly?

 

Christian

[Uwe Raabe 1888]

It is not a general problem with the IDE. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to work efficiently any more.

 

When there is nothing suspicious in the groupproj file, it might be something special in the dproj files.

[chkaufmann 17]

Ok. My .dproj file has about 1800 lines. What should I look for?

 

Christian

[Uwe Raabe 1888]

As I never had such an issue, I simply cannot tell.

 

Perhaps creating a new dproj for each project affected helps.

[Guest]

41 minutes ago, Uwe Raabe said:

Perhaps creating a new dproj for each project affected helps.

When i move my own projects, i tend to omit that file and open the .dpr. And quite often start a new "group".

[Dalija Prasnikar 1341]

1 hour ago, chkaufmann said:

I tried this (only one project per group). But then I run into the problem that the IDE loads this project in a new group (ProjectGroup1.grouproj) the next time I start it and when I compile I have to save the group. Do you just work with .dproj files directly?

While IDE automatically "adds" project to "new" group when you open project, it never forced me to save that group. Maybe you are changing something "group" related so it requires saving.

[chkaufmann 17]

Yes, I noticed that now. But when I open the .DPR file, it doesn't close the last one, it just adds the new project in the same ProjectGroup1.groupproj. So again I have more than one project in the group :-(.

 

I know we have many new features in Delphi, but sometimes I wish to see IDE stability as it was in D7....

 

Christian

[Uwe Raabe 1888]

11 minutes ago, chkaufmann said:

But when I open the .DPR file, it doesn't close the last one, it just adds the new project in the same ProjectGroup1.groupproj.

That is not the usual behavior. There must be something special in your installation. Can you provide detailed steps?

[chkaufmann 17]

I had to deactivate the GExperts project manager. Now I can open a .dproj and the previous will be closed. Not perfect, but one problem less. 

 

Christian

[dummzeuch 1390]

2 hours ago, chkaufmann said:

I had to deactivate the GExperts project manager. Now I can open a .dproj and the previous will be closed. Not perfect, but one problem less.

There is nothing called "project manager" in GExperts. What functionality exactly are you talking about?

[chkaufmann 17]

It's the "Open File" Manager. I can still use it, but I don't set it as default for opening projects.

 

Before I filtered on *.groupproj files there because almost all projects I have there is more than one .dpr. But now I open the .dproj files and set the most important ones as favorites on the welcom page.

 

Christian