Confirmation before opening a Bug Report

[Xaviou]

Hi
As said in the title, I would just have a confirmation on a small problem I encountered with C::B under Windows.

I've configured 2 Tools menu entries :

• One to open an explorer window in the current project file's directory. The command of this tool is : explorer.exe ${PROJECT_DIR}
• One to open an explorer window in the current output file's directory. The command for this one is : explorer.exe ${TARGET_OUPUT_DIR}

The first one is working properly, but the second never open the correct directory : it seems that the ${TARGET_OUPUT_DIR} macro doesn't work.

Can someone confirm this (or just tell me what I am doing wrong) ?

Regards
Xav'

[MortenMacFly]

I am not entirely sure, but:

1.) Are you sure that you actually selected a target so this macro can be evaluated?
2.) Shouldn't it be ${{TARGETS_NAME}_OUPUT_DIR}?

[Jenna]

I just tested it, and it works correct.

The only "problem" is, that the path is relative to the projects directory,

You either have to prepend ${PROJECT_DIR} or use it as working directory.

Note ${PROJECT_DIR} already has a trailing backslash, so in first case you have to prepend ${TARGET_OUTPUT_DIR} directly, so it becomes:
explorer.exe ${PROJECT_DIR}${TARGET_OUTPUT_DIR}

[Xaviou]

Hi, and thank you for your responses.

2.) Shouldn't it be ${{TARGETS_NAME}_OUPUT_DIR}?

I just used the macro shown in the "Edit tool" dialog box.

I just tested it, and it works correct.

The only "problem" is, that the path is relative to the projects directory

Sorry, I didn't thought it could be.

so it becomes:
explorer.exe ${PROJECT_DIR}${TARGET_OUTPUT_DIR}

It works perfectly. Thank-you.

Hmmm : shame on me  
The problem wasn't here : just have a look at what I wrote : even if I checked several times the typo of the macro, I made an error (a missing T in OUTPUT).

@Jens : the ${TARGET_OUTPUT_DIR} macro can be alone, without the ${PROJECT_DIR} one, even if the output directory is written as relative to the project dir in the project properties.

Again, I apologize for this.
Regards

Xav'

[Jenna]

Hmmm : shame on me  
The problem wasn't here : just have a look at what I wrote : even if I checked several times the typo of the macro, I made an error (a missing T in OUTPUT).

that's why I marked the T red in my previous post.

@Jens : the ${TARGET_OUTPUT_DIR} macro can be alone, without the ${PROJECT_DIR} one, even if the output directory is written as relative to the project dir in the project properties.

In the project I tested I need to prepend it.
It's a web-project, on a network-drive in windows, without any executables.
Probably the working directory used for wxExecute is only set if the project/target is build, or if it was set explicitely in the tools configuration.

There is also a TO_ABSOLUT_PATH-macro, that creates an absolute path in C::B's executable folder and not in the projects base-path, but that's another story.