Re: VC6 does not recognize file changes anymore

"critten" <critten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

> Short description of my working environment (may be it is needed to answer
> the question):
> OS: Windows 2000
> Rational Rose 2000 to generate the class skeletons which I use in VC6 for
> further devolopment.
> ClearCase for administration of different versions
>
> The problem:
> When I (re)generate a class from Rational Rose I get a new ".h" or /and
> ".cpp" file because a new method was added or something else was changed
> within the class. If VC6 is open at the moment of regeneration it does not
> ask anymore if the changed files shall be reloaded. But this it did before!!!
> Now I have to restart VC6 so it reloads all files. Otherwise it will not
> recognize the changes. The IDE keeps the old files in its memory.
>
> What has changed? Is there an option for the file recognition? Do I have the
> possibility to trigger the reload only of the changed files manually inVC6?

VC should only ask to reload the file if it was open for editing at the time, not just because the
VC program was running. What happens if you close the file (not VC), then reopen it? Doesn't it load
the new version from disk?

Andrew


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