RE: [Dev-C++] 'New Source File' bug

[Ioannis V. <no...@ya...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev...@li... 
> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Devin Carless
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:24 PM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Dev-C++] 'New Source File' bug
> 
> 
> 
>   I came across a bug in Dev-C++ 4 some time ago, and now 
> it's gotten so annoying that I'm mentioning it in case no one 
> else knows about it.  When I create a new souce file in a 
> large (15+ files) project, and use Save As to rename it, 
> often Dev-C++ refuses to change the name in the project 
> window (the one on the left.)  So I don't know what it's 
> saving, exactly.  Furthermore, I often get phantom unnamed 
> windows.  Clicking on the 'Unnamed1' in the project window 
> seemed to create new ones.  Last time, I tried to chase them 
> all these spurious windows down and X them out of existence.  
> Then I saved and quit...causing a whole slew of red-X windows 
> errors and 'runtime error' complaints.
>   I've had other problems with Dev-C++'s file handling.  Once 
> it didn't save something it should have.  (Fortunately it was 
> only a short header file, which I could easily recreate from 
> the .cpp.)  The reason I used 'Save As' in the first place is 
> that some time ago I had similar problems with selecting an 
> unnamed file in the project window and trying to change its 
> name.  (I can't recall the exact details.)


Be patient, Dev-C++ 5 is coming.



>  I'm having enough 
> trouble with C++'s noodleheaded view of aggregate data 
> objects; this really isn't helping. 


What trouble.



Ioannis
 
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