Some help with launch configurations

Vladimir Prus ghost at cs.msu.su
Fri Jul 10 10:54:00 UTC 2009


On Friday 10 July 2009 Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> On 10.07.09 15:43:36, Kishore wrote:
> > On Friday 10 Jul 2009 1:38:03 pm Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > > On Friday 10 July 2009 Kishore wrote:
> > > I am not exactly sure about dialog -- that
> > > combo appears to only select what settings you want to edit -- it does not
> > > change how the launch configuration is launched -- you pick the relevant
> > > item from the menu. However, it's a bit confusing to myself, too.
> > > Andreas, can you clarify what this combobox is supposed to mean?
> > 
> > If the combobox in the dialog is meant to "create" the tab below it. would it 
> > not be better to have them as tabs that always exist and just discard the 
> > "Launch Mode" combobox?
>  
> Well, IMHO its not so nice to have 8 tabs there just because there are 8
> possible launch modes. And eventually even more if there are more launchers
> for a given launchmode (think of integrating gdb+msvc-debug on win32 for
> Debugging native apps). Thats why the tabs are added/removed based on the
> launchmode.

However, the current UI has its own problems:

1. It seems like the launch mode is a property of configuration.
2. Next time you've opened the dialog, you still get only first tab

Probably, it's best to remove the combo, and instead have "add mode"
button that will add tabs relevant for a new mode?

- Volodya




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