Comments on Real Software: Making debugging a bit easier on Windows

I have been working 80 hour weeks for over a month...

2009-05-16T09:48:00.000-05:00

I have been working 80 hour weeks for over a month at my "day" job so I am little behind in my RB reading. Please keep this information coming!!! It is great to know how these things work and how to get around them. Since I do most of my development on Windows this has been a bit vexing for me.

Norm, I realize that when you post a helpful worka...

2009-04-22T09:37:00.000-05:00

Norm, I realize that when you post a helpful workaround to a problem, it must be irritating to get a load of comments about hoop-jumping.
I hope this won't discourage you from making this kind of very useful post in the future.
Some of us definitely appreciate the advice, however much we may hope for changes in future deletion policy.

I agree that the hoop jumping is pretty ridiculous...

2009-04-21T12:49:00.000-05:00

I agree that the hoop jumping is pretty ridiculous. Maybe REALSoftware can find a way to make things way easier on their customers by changing the way REALBasic compiles so that we can have complete control over the build paths and make an option to *not* delete the paths when finished by overwriting anything that's in the path with the new build.

OR post the details of the build process and explain why it can't be done.. Then let customers make suggestions on how the build process should work. If RS can't figure a way, I'm sure its customers can offer suggestions.

Is this behavior discussed in the Release Notes or...

2009-04-20T06:30:00.000-05:00

Is this behavior discussed in the Release Notes or any elements of the 9.2 documentation?

Seems important enough.

Much better to publish a solid workaround than not...

2009-04-17T09:28:00.000-05:00

Much better to publish a solid workaround than not say anything. It's easy to do and it works. There is something to be said for testing this way, since a well done application would never write anything to its executing location- but I don't think it has to stay this way.

I completely understand the folder layout given the multi-platform builds. That's not the issue to me. I think just having RB only remove and/or replace the files it creates [and not the entire structure] each build is the smart way to go in the future. Then we can just drop files in there and be done. No read-only flags to set, etc.

It's this kind of fairly ridiculous hoop jumping w...

2009-04-17T07:24:00.000-05:00

It's this kind of fairly ridiculous hoop jumping which is keeping me at 2007r5, even though I have a full Pro (now studio) license renewed out until 2011.

I do appreciate the information, and I'm sure people who have bitten the bullet and switched to the newer revisions are going to find this useful... but the Windows build process really needs to be fixed so this sort of stuff isn't necessary.