How to manually compile file / package

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Mike Henderson · Apr 15, 2016

#Compiler

Is there a way to manually compile a class or package without having to save?

Using the perforce integration I did a "Undo Check Out" and the code was revered but not compiled.

CLARIFICATION: From the Atelier UI.

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Timothy Leavitt · Apr 19, 2016

This is a really good point.

At some level, this is part of the behavior of %Studio.SourceControl.ISC, the studio extension class for source control using Perforce. Studio doesn't automatically recompile the class and dependent classes after checkout either. This has bitten me before - I've undone a checkout, but forgotten to recompile, leaving the old compiled version in effect. It might be reasonable for %Studio.SourceControl.ISC to have an option to automatically compile edited items after undo of a checkout, or even to just do that all the time.

Also, Atelier actually does have a separate "compile" option, in the toolbar at the top. (The icon has a file with "010" on it.)

This is an important feature; in addition to the case you noted, there are several situations I can think of offhand where a class would need to be recompiled even though it hasn't changed:

The behavior of a macro defined in a .inc file changes. Classes that use that macro must be recompiled to get the new behavior.
A method in Class A is called from a [ CodeMode = objectgenerator ] method in Class B. If the implementation of the method in Class A changes, Class B may need to be recompiled. (It won't be recompiled automatically.)

One downside to automatically compiling impacted/dependent classes is that it can take a while - if a minor change impacts hundreds of classes, it might be reasonable to save the class and compile it in separate actions. There's a preference in Atelier (Preferences -> Atelier -> Save Settings, "server save action") to not compile files automatically when they're saved to the server. Atelier is much better about this than Studio, though; when compiling hundreds of dependent classes, Studio tends to freeze up. With Atelier there's the possibility of a timeout, but the editor should remain responsive while the compilation is happening.

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score 2 · Answer 1 · 2016-04-16T02:44:47-04:00

Eduard Lebedyuk · Apr 16, 2016

Use $System.OBJ.Compile("class").

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score 2 · Answer 2 · 2016-04-16T03:32:41-04:00

Dmitry Maslennikov · Apr 16, 2016

do $system.OBJ.CompilePackage("some_package")

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score 1 · Answer 3 · 2016-04-16T12:09:33-04:00

From Atelier's menus there is no way of doing a compile without a save. The compile updates the server class. The client code you wrote is saved so that the server and client code are in synch.

score 1 · Answer 4 · 2016-04-17T09:21:59-04:00

Low priority (since we can compile from a csession) but it would be nice if on P4 revert the class (and dependents) were recompiled.

score 0 · Answer 5 · 2016-04-20T10:44:51-04:00

Thanks for pointing out the toolbar button.

It would be nice if this was also a menu-item (preferably with hotkey) for those of us that don't use toolbars.