> Does it make sense to enable pointing directly at a project root with a user folder too? i.e. search root as well as sub-folders for .jproj files.
Allowing a project in the Folder root complicates things in that it needs special treatment (e.g. in the Open Project dialog) compared to all other subdirectories of the Folder. In my experience there is never a need for a project in the Folder root, so it is not supported. On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Steven Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris & Ric, > > Thanks for explaining about the shallow search. I went back to using upper > case too. So, I went one level up in the path, and now *jqt *is working > now as you'd expect it to. > > e.g. from *C:/dev/projectA/* to *c:/dev/* > > Does it make sense to enable pointing directly at a project root with a > user folder too? i.e. search root as well as sub-folders for .jproj files. > > -Steven > > > > > > On 24 August 2014 15:28, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You could try making sure that your alias starts with a capital > letter. I > > think that is the convention for user (as opposed to system) folders. > > > > Yes, this is correct. You should see the lowercase folder included with > > SystemFolders_j_. > > > > There is a good reason for the distinction between SystemFolders and > > UserFolders. In both cases you want the convenience of using folder > names. > > However UserFolders are intended for storing your J code and the ide > > searches through them for projects. Typically they will have a shallow > > directory tree, for example the only large UserFolders I have are for the > > addons and public svns. OTOH SystemFolders can point to arbitrarily large > > directory trees and are not searched through. > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Ric Sherlock <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > I added: > > > TmpC c:/tmp/ > > > to my folders.cfg and then > > > dir '~TmpC' > > > worked fine. > > > > > > You could try making sure that your alias starts with a capital > letter. I > > > think that is the convention for user (as opposed to system) folders. I > > > tried the following with no sucess: > > > tmpC c:/tmp/ > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:41 PM, Steven Taylor <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > has anyone successfully used jqt with custom project locations? > > > > > > > > In the menu edit/configure/folders (config/folders.cfg), I placed the > > > line: > > > > > > > > test_proj c:\dev\some\path > > > > > > > > However, the menu items project/new and project/open do not appear to > > be > > > > picking this up correctly. What should the correct configuration > look > > > > like? > > > > > > > > btw: I also tried forward slashes to no avail, as in: > > > > > > > > test_proj c:/dev/some/path > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > -Steven > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
