I have started putting the code I work on on a USB drive. This allows me to work on it whether I am at home or at school, which speeds up development enormously. There are some kinks that I am trying to work around, and occurs to me that as long as we are discussing Project Manager, maybe some of these problems can be addressed.
The environment is: code is on my USB drive; the resulting apps need to be built on different machines with different targets: at school, a network drive where all teachers can get to them, at home my home PC or the USB drive itself. The problems are: 0. You never know what disk letter a USB drive is going to get. Some machines it is E, other H, others I. How do I set up the folder containing the project so it can be seen on different machines? I have a roaming profile so the J profile is the same everywhere; but this means the folder's drive letter is wrong most places. This is basically a deficiency in the folder system. I have worked around it my having a program that sniffs out the drive that my stuff is on, and modifies USERFOLDERS_j_. This is a kludge in that if I run Edit|Configure, USERFOLDERS can get set back to its unmodified state. I think I want some intelligent folder definition that works with USB drives. 1. The target varies from system to system. At school, I must build to a subdirectory of X: which is our shared tools disk. At home, I would be happy to build to the USB drive itself. My workaround has been to create an X: drive at home. This is a kludge, and not transferable to other environments. What is needed is a general way to have the targets, and perhaps some of the sources, depend on which machine I am on. 2. I need backup! I am getting old enough that remembering where I put my keys is a challenge - what happens if I lose my USB drive? I back up the drive by hand, but I think that a 'backup' target, that just saves everything, might be a good idea. It might even be helpful to take backup every time Project Manager starts. Henry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
