Re: Eclipse & gnatbench

[Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgrass@gmail.com>]

On Mar 7, 1:09 pm, Eric Hughes <eric....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 6, 9:49 pm, Britt Snodgrass <britt.snodgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It
> > handles the Apex naming convention (i.e., *.1.ada & *.2.ada) just fine
> > if the GNATbench project's .gpr file specifies it [...]
>
> Already had that.
>
> > [...] *and* if the
> > internal Eclipse file association preferences are updated to associate
> > the .ada extension with the GNATbench Ada editor (in addition to .ads
> > and .adb).
>
> Didn't have that, and it seems to improve matters.  Thank you.
>
> I did check, though, and I could not find the necessity of a second
> manual step anywhere in the documentation available under Eclipse.  I
> suppose I had naively figured that if I specified the naming
> convention once (in the .gpr file), that it would automagically work
> in the tool wherever it needed to.
>
> Eric

Its not in the documentation.  I had to ask AdaCore. I think they
didn't want to risk taking over file associations from a different Ada
compiler but I'm pretty sure the Eclipse file association preference
settings are only relevant inside Eclipse.  I still keep a copy of
Apex Ada NT 4.2.0c installed. Setting the .ada association inside
Eclipse didn't change the association outside of Eclipse - double-
clicking a *.1.ada file outside of Eclipse still launches Apex NT.

I think it would be good if GNATbench's Ada editor was automatically
associated with .ada and .adc (for gnat.adc) extensions inside
Eclipse.  Outside of Eclipse I prefer to keep .ads, .adb and .gpr
extensions associated with their GPS editor so that GPS is launched
when I double-click the file in Windoze Exploder.  I usually manage
Windows file associations using the "assoc" and "ftype" commands
available from cmd.exe if I need to change them.

As far as I know. there is no way to pass a filename to Eclipse during
startup. This means there is no way to open a file in Eclipse/
GNATbench simply by double-clicking on a filename.

- Britt