In case it is not obvious - if you really wanted a layout with a root project and subprojects in its subdirectories, just make the Folder one level higher.
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 7:54 AM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
