[Feature Request]: Tell the user how to back out of a decision to have Codelite rebuild the program every time before running or debugging it

[Robin-Whittle]

Describe your idea in details

There is a potentially handy, but also potentially annoying, feature by which Codelite, when we give the command to debug a program, puts up a dialog box (or whatever it is called) which asks "Would you like to build the project before debugging it". I find this a minor annoyance because it appears even when the current code, as shown in the editor and as in the source file(s) on disk, is unchanged from when I last built it.

I tried accepting the invitation to do so, with the box ticked for "Remember my answer and don't ask me again". Now it rebuilds every time, including when the project has just been built.

If the program was large, this automatic rebuild would take some time.

I don't know how to turn the auto-rebuild option off.

I suggest that the dialogue box mention how to turn this of and that there be some way of doing so which is readily apparent in the Debugger section of the Project > Settings system. I was unable to find any such facility in Project > Settings or in in the main (for Codelite, not just for a project) Settings system.

A similar arrangement exists when using Build > Run. "Would you like to build the active project before executing it?" Here is a screenshot.

Thanks for Codelite!

[eranif]

Settings -> Preferences -> Misc -> Reset annoying dialog answers

[Robin-Whittle]

Thanks! This is the last of 23 items on the last of 11 tab divisions of Settings > Preferences, which is the first of 8 menus under Settings.

I wasn't sure what to look for or where to look. It might have been in the Project settings. For whatever reason I didn't find it. If I had read it, I probably would have recognised that it related to my answer which caused Codelite not to ask me again about building before Debug / Run, but I could easily have not recognised this.

Adding a note pointing to this setting to the dialogue box would be cumbersome and users are unlikely to remember it in sufficient detail when, hours to months later, they want to turn of the auto build arrangement.

Instead, I suggest that in the debug log or whatever it is where we see the build command, that there be a line before it to the effect that this is an automatic build before Debug/Run, as requested, and that this can be disabled via Settings -> Preferences -> Misc -> Reset annoying dialog answers.