[Qt-creator] Disabling File Changed dialog

[Henrik Abelsson]

Hey all,


I created a patch which adds an option to automatically reload changes. It's
implemented as global option for all files and projects at the moment,
similar to "Automatic reload of externally modified files" in Visual Studio.
It should silently reload unmodified files, but still prompt you on files
which have been modified but are unsaved.

The patch is here for review:


http://qt.gitorious.org/~abelsson/qt-creator/abelssons-clone/commit/b93560f4b4ff02b55175320c4ce7348d70e8c7b9

I'm still relatively new to this codebase, but quite enjoy hacking a bit on
it. Would any experienced trolls please let me know if I'm breaking any
fundamental design principles with this patch? :)

-henrik

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been experiencing this annoying behavior too in my Qt Creator
> project where I have couple lex and bison files generated, where I get
> that dialog at every build cycle!
>
> Best approach: Give the choice to the end-user. We could for example,
> add a tick box for such a dialog (per file?) to let the user ignore or
> accept such a warning. Another global setting would restore all the
> warnings for the entire project.
>
> Regards,
> Ilyes Gouta.
>
> P.S: Qt Creator rocks! we've been dreaming about such an IDE for a
> long time! Keep up the good work!
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Coda Highland<coda at bobandgeorge.com>
> wrote:
> > I completely agree with the current behavior as defaults, although I
> > would agree to options to set the behavior.
> >
> > The reason you might not want to reload the file from disk is because
> > reloading kills your undo history. Also, the update may have been
> > unexpected and you want to inspect the changes before loading them, or
> > worse you may have had unsaved changes in the editor.
> >
> > /s/ Adam
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Jonathan Arnold<jdarnold at buddydog.org>
> wrote:
> >> Is there any way to turn off the File Changed dialog in Qt Creator? I
> have been
> >> playing with having emacs as my external editor, but getting a dialog
> every time
> >> I switch back to Qt Creator asking if I want to reload the file because
> it has
> >> changed on the disk makes the feature much less useful. In fact, I
> really can't
> >> come up with a compelling reason as to why reloading silently wouldn't
> be the
> >> default option. How many times does a developer *not* want to reload the
> editor
> >> with the file that is on the disk? This is esp. true when you use a
> source code
> >> control system and sync with the latest.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jonathan Arnold        Webstream: http://hieronymus.soup.io
> >>
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> >>  -- George Carlin
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