!Builder problem

There’s a problem with !Builder if the registered build directory is greater than 50 chars. This is because !Builder reads the stringset to set the directory. So could you increase the length of the ‘Build directory’ stringset in the ‘options’ template in the res file.

A nice easy one :-)

see http://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/4/topics/68

See also: https://www.riscosopen.org/viewer/view/castle/RiscOS/Utilities/Release/builder/Resources/res%2Cfae

Can anyone still see this problem in the current !Builder (i.e. one of the latest Tools CD) or can we say this is fixed?

Unless I’m missing something, !Builder isn’t supplied on the tools CD.

But irrespective of that, the current version of Builder in CVS (or the pre-built version in RiscOS.Apps, at least) does suffer from the bug Colin describes: Although you can register a long build directory using the ‘Register build tree’ window, it’s impossible to make use of the directory, because the ‘Build directory’ text box in the build options window still has the 50 char limit instead of the newer 128 char limit.

It looks like there’s a secondary issue as well – If you re-open the ‘Register build directories’ window then only 50 characters of the directory will have been placed into it, making it hard/impossible to unregister the directory.

I’ve been doing some work on srcbuild so I’ll take this opportunity to deal with these issues in !Builder at the same time.

Oh, and as for the Tools CD, I’ve decided that the next release will probably include a full build directory (of the type we have for ROM builds) with a bunch of examples using proper build structures. Then, I can put !Make out to pasture, where it belongs. It’s quite a bit of work but the current Tools CD contents are just causing confusion.