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AppGameKit Classic Chat / What causes projectname.layout.cb.temp to be created?

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Rich Dersheimer
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Posted: 29th Jun 2012 18:30
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Like in the subject, except that "projectname" is the actual name of my project.

This file keeps showing up, and I'm curious why.

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Ancient Lady
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Posted: 29th Jun 2012 19:03
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It's a temporary file created by the IDE to store stuff while working. Unlike other programs, it doesn't use the usual temp directory (which most people aren't aware of, but there are a couple of them in Windows).

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Rich Dersheimer
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Posted: 29th Jun 2012 19:57
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Yes, I know what it is, just curious as to why it's created, and why it hangs around.

It doesn't get created for all my projects, but I can't tell why it does get created for a specific project.

AL, do you get one created everytime you exit the PC AppGameKit IDE?

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Posted: 29th Jun 2012 20:06
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Nope, I don't think so.

It is a sporadic thing. Sometimes the IDE doesn't clean up after itself.

It might be related to why it sometimes doesn't compile every time you tell it to. I discovered today that sometimes it doesn't update the media/SourceCode.agc timestamp (even when the code updates) and that might be why it doesn't do the full compile to byte code.

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Rich Dersheimer
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Posted: 29th Jun 2012 21:00
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Quote: "It is a sporadic thing. Sometimes the IDE doesn't clean up after itself."


LOL, I just took a break, came back to my project, and now it's stopped writing the temp file. Tempermental AppGameKit!

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Posted: 29th Jun 2012 21:24
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The IDE does have suspicious behavior.

Right now (after having closed the IDE and restarted it), it is nicely compiling everything every time. (And I bet I just jinxed it!)

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Posted: 30th Jun 2012 05:31
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Quote: "...after having closed the IDE and restarted it..."

I find myself doing that fairly regularly.

Usually because the dialogue boxes become the size of a close icon and I can't see what they say - making search / replace very difficult.

It seems that after some mysterious period of time it forgets how to size windows correctly
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