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From: CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Minor THINK C Complaint
Message-ID: <90241.121931CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 16:19:31 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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Here's something that has been bothering me for quite a while, and I'd like
to hear what other THINK C users have to say about it.

One of the things I love about THINK C is the ability to option-click in a
window's title bar to get a pull-down list of all the header dependencies
of that file, or of the entire project (if you click in the project window's
title bar).

Unfortunately, if you use a precompiled header (which I do A LOT), the header
that you compiled doesn't show up in the list.  For me, this expands the
usual "option-click, open header file" step to "Command-O, descend the
directory tree, open header file" -- much slower.  How hard would it be
to embed the name (and directory, or whatever is done for uncompiled
headers) of the original header file in the precompiled version?  That way,
there would be no sacrifice of utility when using precompiled headers.  Often
I find that I NEED to use precompiled headers, since otherwise a full make
would take me all day -- AppleShare servers and floppies are slow.

My current workaround is to keep the header file open in a window at all
times, but that clutters up the screen something fierce, especially on an
SE.  Having the ability to quickly open the header files without going
through the Standard File dialogs is a beautiful feature -- I just wish
I could do the same with precompiled headers.

Come to think of it, it would be nice if the compiler remembered the name
that the precompiled header had been saved under, the same as it does for
the "Build Application..." name.  And a command-key for "Precompile Header"
would be handy, too....

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Christopher Tate                       |
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