Bug 65363 - Automake Manager doesn't issue an error/warnig for non-existent project file(s)
Summary: Automake Manager doesn't issue an error/warnig for non-existent project file(s)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kdevelop
Classification: Applications
Component: Build tools: Automake (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.0a7
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KDevelop Developers
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Reported: 2003-10-02 11:05 UTC by Ian Wadham
Modified: 2007-01-14 02:05 UTC (History)
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Description Ian Wadham 2003-10-02 11:05:29 UTC
Version:           3.0.0a7 (using KDE 3.1.1)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-4GB

If you left click on a file in Automake Manager that does not exist in the "src" directory (e.g. "myappiface.skel"), there is no error message and Automake Mana
ger just silently closes.
Comment 1 Amilcar do Carmo Lucas 2003-10-03 19:52:59 UTC
Sorry, can not reproduce this one! 
Comment 2 Ian Wadham 2003-10-04 04:07:48 UTC
Subject: Re:  Non-existent file causes Automake Manager to terminate prematurely         

Did you try creating a new project, as in bug 65362, then left-click
on "<appname>iface.skel"  file?  Otherwise, try adding a file to
the project in Automake Manager (AM) and deleting it in the Shell
in another window.  When you left-click on the filename in AM
Detail View, AM closes, with no error message.

Note: This is not an artificial situation.  A user might easily delete
(or rename?) a file, accidentally or deliberately, outside Gideon.
AM should protect itself and the user against further consequences
of this loss of integrity in the Makefile.am.  Hence my bug report.

Comment 3 Amilcar do Carmo Lucas 2003-10-04 20:21:25 UTC
> Did you try creating a new project, as in bug 65362, then left-click  
> on "<appname>iface.skel" file? 
yes. 
 
> Otherwise, try adding a file to  
> the project in Automake Manager (AM) and deleting it in the Shell  
> in another window. 
did that. 
 
> When you left-click on the filename in AM Detail View, AM closes, with no 
> error message. 
What do you mean by closes? Nothing happens here! 
 
That is why I unconfirmed the bug. Until someone else confirms it it sould be 
left unconfirmed. 
 
Thanks for the detailed report though. 
 
 
 
Comment 4 Ian Wadham 2003-10-05 00:43:17 UTC
Subject: Re:  Non-existent file causes Automake Manager to terminate prematurely         

> > Did you try creating a new project, as in bug 65362, then left-click
> > on "<appname>iface.skel" file?
> yes.
So, what happens in your environment then?  Do you get an
error message? Does a "file" open? Does the Automake Manager
window stay open?  The answers for me are no, no and no.

> > When you left-click on the filename in AM Detail View, AM
> > closes, with no error message.
> What do you mean by closes? Nothing happens here!
>
Automake Manager window closes.  To go on working in AM I have to
click again on the tab at the right of the Ideal-mode window.  I am using
SuSE 8.2, KDE 3.1.1, Qt 3.1.1 and Gideon a7, downloaded 29/9/03.

Comment 5 Amilcar do Carmo Lucas 2003-10-05 14:23:44 UTC
> So, what happens in your environment then? Do you get an  
> error message? Does a "file" open? Does the Automake Manager  
> window stay open? The answers for me are no, no and no.  
 
No error message. The file doesn't open. The Automake Manager window stays 
open. No crash. 
 
> Automake Manager window closes. To go on working in AM I have to  
> click again on the tab at the right of the Ideal-mode window. 
THIS IS NORMAL! The same thing happends if you click on ANY file in the 
automake manager. Unless you select the (.) icon on the top left corner of the 
Automake manager window it will always colapse after a click. 
Colapse is different from close. 
 
I thought (reading your initial bug report) that AM crashed and closed it's 
window. But It's looks like all it does is to colapse the window like it is 
supposed to. 
 
So I guess this bug resumes to: 
Automake Manager doesn't issue an error/warnig for non-existent project 
file(s) 
 
 
 
Comment 6 Ian Wadham 2003-10-06 01:25:16 UTC
Subject: Re:  Automake Manager doesn't issue an error/warnig for non-existent project file(s)         

Re "normal" closing of the AM window.  File Selector, File Tree, Classes
and File Groups all stay open and allow you to open more files - a useful
feature for program files.  ANY piece of software should remain open, if
it can, in an error situation - allowing the user to correct the error or
live
with it.  I seem to remember, Amilcar, that you corrected me on that point
regarding KGoldrunner failing to find its user documentation ... :-)

Re AM does not report a non-existent file: yes, that's a bug and should be
handled better.  Re inconsistency with File Tree, etc: should I report
another bug?


> Unless you select the (.) icon on the top left corner of the
> Automake Manager window it will always collapse after a click.
> Collapse is different from close.
>
Well, I've used AM extensively for about 3 months now and never
noticed that button.  It's rather inconspicuous ...

Comment 7 Amilcar do Carmo Lucas 2003-10-08 20:31:10 UTC
> should I report another bug? 
no. 
 
Now that you noticed the button, do you understand my #5 comment? 
 
Comment 8 Ian Wadham 2003-10-09 08:45:54 UTC
I always understood your comment #5, but I never noticed the button:
you pointed it out to me!  I think whether the window collapses or
not may come down to the defaults KDevelop 3 developers choose for
that button.  They ought to be consistent across all windows, not
one thing for File Tree and another for Automake Manager.  My
preference would be for the default to be no collapse after opening
a file, since I often want to look at more than one file and it is
easy to close the sidebar if it is in the way.
Comment 9 Jens Dagerbo 2004-05-14 23:17:19 UTC
Hardly a big problem. Changed to 'minor'.
Comment 10 Andreas Pakulat 2007-01-14 02:05:32 UTC
This is fixed in 3.4, we don't do anything now when trying to open non-existant files.