PR# 12083 Changing an external feature has no effect.

Problem Report Summary
Submitter: randyjohn
Category: EiffelStudio
Priority: Medium
Date: 2007/02/21
Class: Bug
Severity: Serious
Number: 12083
Release: 6.0.6.6595
Confidential: No
Status: Closed
Responsible:
Environment: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; SV1; AXAR_Corp_Device; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Synopsis: Changing an external feature has no effect.

Description
At first I tried only to change the alias of an external but no freeze happened and the Feature Relation view showed the old alias.  I forced a freeze but Feature Relation was still wrong.  I ran it anyway but the behaviour was as if no change had been made.  Then I tried changing the name of the feature.  You would think that it wouldn't compile since I need that feature - but it did.  I even removed the feature - it still compiled with no problems.  Then I took a non-external feature and duplicated it.  Finally, this got the compiler's attention.  I removed the duplicate and recompiled and the change to the alias got noticed and a freeze happened automatically.  Problem solved.  Very strange.  The only clue that I can give is that this class was in an override.
   Randy
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											From:manus_eiffel   
											Date:2007/03/13   
																							Status: Closed   
											
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This should be fixed in the next release (post 6.0.6.7253). The issue was that the automatic saving done when compiling a project (either through F7 or Shift+F8) would mess up the internals of overrides and most of the time would not recompile the modified class.

											
											
											

											
										

									

								

							

							
							

								

									
									
										

											

									
											From:randyjohn   
											Date:2007/02/26   
											
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Shift-F8 is what I tried first!

											
											
											

											
										

									

								

							

							
							

								

									
									
										

											

									
											From:manus_eiffel   
											Date:2007/02/23   
																							Status: Analyzed   
											
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Just to be sure, the shortcut for recompile overrides is Shift+F8.

											
											
											

											
										

									

								

							

							
							

								

									
									
										

											

									
											From:randyjohn   
											Date:2007/02/23   
											
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I think that this might be the same problem:

I've been using ctrl-F8 (Recompile Overrides) for a while and it has worked fine.  Now, for some reason, it doesn't see the changes that I have made to the source.  I have to make a change, press ctrl-S first and THEN press ctrl-F8.  Rebuilding from scratch did nothing.