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[steven]

Hi! I work on my projects on two locations, viz. at work and at home. In both cases, my directory structure is different, for example, I have D:\Projects\<project> at work and F:\Work\Projects\<project> at home. Now, when I use JC for my project management, it stores the *absolute* path to files in the JCP file, which means that I have to do a Project Properties reconfiguration everytime I copy my project from/to work.

I think it would be nice if it stored a relative path when possible, so that I can copy my entire folder contents back and forth. Then at runtime JC can create an absolute path.

I know there are many workarounds here, such as keeping all project files one directory level lower than the JCP file, but just an idea...

[jeef]

i have the excat same problem with not solution :S

i just surrendered and place them both in the same relative location (eg: c:\ws)
its not overly a big deal as im using SVN to store the project anyway...

[xinox]

C:\Projects\projectA\

Directory for the workspace files (jcw, jcp, jcu)

C:\Projects\projectA\src\

Directory for the java source files which are stored with relative paths in projectA.jcp.

This does not apply to version 2.50 of jcreator which uses a different procedure for storing project information.

-Xinox Software

[steven]

A quote from one of my project files:

CODE

<project>
<settings>
 <label>Swarm</label>
 <root_path>\</root_path>
 <output_path>D:\Projecten\Swarm Intelligence\classes\</output_path>
 <source_path>D:\Projecten\Swarm Intelligence\src\</source_path>
 <jdkprofile_ref>JDK version 1.4.2_08</jdkprofile_ref>
 <compiler_ref/>
 <ant_ref/>
</settings>

As you can see, the paths are stored in an absolute way and not a relative one. I correctly ran through the New Project wizard, so I assume that this is normal. In another part we have:

CODE

<files>
 <include>
  <folderitem>
   <path>src</path>
  </folderitem>
  <folderitem>
   <path>src\guitools</path>
  ...

In which indeed the paths are relative.

I hope this clears things up a bit. I understand why the paths are absolute (we need a reference point for the relative paths) but a workaround would be very nice.

[xinox]

Which version of JCreator are you using?

[steven]

The same mechanism applies for all versions I have been using since 3.0, ie. 3.0, 3.10 and 3.50 in all builds (at least the ones I used). This output is from 3.50.011.

[xinox]

We can't reproduce the problem on our test machines. Please report the issue through our web form with the required system information :

http://www.jcreator.com/mailform/bugreport.htm

[jeef]

crazy, i just checked my jcp file and it was all relative, no absolute paths at all... i could have sworn it was all absolute paths... odd

[steven]

I must say that I cannot reproduce the problem either by making a new project now, either by adding it to an existing workspace or by automatically generating a new workspace. However the code snippet above shows that sometimes we do get absolute paths. I will try to reproduce the problem...

[E-E-R]

I have looked through all of my .jcp files, and only one of them was using one absolute path, as far as I can see it is because it is above the project 'root', and I put that in there by hand by changing the output path.

[steven]

Today I reproduced the error, although I do not know what I have done in an other way than in the cases where a relative path was used.  However once again I now have in the JCP file:

CODE

output_path>D:\Unimaas\Projecten\Swarm Intelligence\Software\Routeplanner\classes\</output_path>

What I did was:

1. Create a project called RoutePlanner in D:\Unimaas\Projecten\Swarm Intelligence\Software\Routeplanner.
2. Set source (src) and classes (classes) path (btw, JC does not create the src folder, I have to do this manually and add a Java file to it in order to get this working).
3. Get to work.

[xinox]

2. Set source (src) and classes (classes) path (btw, JC does not create the src folder, I have to do this manually and add a Java file to it in order to get this working).

Check the project templates. They are responsible for creating the initial directories.

[lordSauron]

Xinox should still try and fix that.  I have problems with that too, and I'm using 3.5 Pro...  I think that an error as trivial as that should still be fixed, because sometimes I get on this roll of ideas...  It's awesome, and a stupid thing like that really takes me down.

Xinox: I see your participation is up!  Did that thread about a lack of Xinox participation get you mad?  You know, if so, you really shouldn't let stuff like that piss you off.  I tell people like that to buzz off and pick on someone who won't intullectually squash them.  Yes, I mispelled that word.  Spelling isn't my strongest point.

[steven]

Lord Sauron, does your post imply that you have experienced the same bug (with absolute paths)? If so, can you reproduce it?