Why are closed MX projects still being processed?

[Frank Hefter]

To focus on one project I close all the other projects.

• But still by pressing CMD-B (Mac) all MX-projects get rebuild.
• The closed MX-projects can still be collapsed/uncollapsed.
• Search ...
• Problems Tab ...

This very time consuming.

I think this should not be the case by default.

[Cartu38 OpenDev]

Sounds weird but maybe facing a common Eclipse behavior because playing with some STM32Cube "hierarchical" projects setup.

Please share on which target device are you relying ?

"Hierarchical" projects looks like:

Here I've "my H7 DC Project" which is my "main" project container.

But takes care x2 other projects are promoted (appplicative ones) ... one per cpu (here my H7 device is a dual cpu one including x1 Cortex M4 plus x1 Cortex M7)

Closing one of them is not closing others ... you have to close all by yourself.

[Frank Hefter]

You are right. I only close the top project and not the subordinate projects.

Nevertheless, if I close the top project, the others below it with the other cores should also close, right?

I'm using STM32WLxx

-> Bug in STM32MX 1.5.1 ?

[Cartu38 OpenDev]

" if I close the top project, the others below it with the other cores should also close, right?" ... from common Eclipse behavior answer is: no.

Eclipse is not managing by itself action propagation thru a "hierarchical" project structure.

So if STM32CubeIDE i would not say bug but we may ask for feature request. Please rely on "Idea Zone" to promote it I guess.

[Frank Hefter]

Since I'm not allowed to edit my post (why?):

-> Bug in STM32CubeIDE 1.5.1

[Markus GIRDLAND]

Hello Frank!

This is not really a bug but more due to Eclipse common behavior. Although I can understand from a user experience you wouldn't want it to be like that. However, it is part of our scope to improve this and other functions related to hierarchical projects (such as renaming, copy etc.) but it's not part of the next release.

[Frank Hefter]

Hello Markus,

as a project engineer, I know that the priorities are usually on new features. But from the user's point of view, it's better if the existing functions not only work, but be perfectly.

Other C and C++ projects do close and don't show collapse/uncollapse icon anymore. This is just failing for MX projects. So I think this is an MX project issue and no Eclipse default behaviour. (I use Eclipse since V1.)

I've been using the CUBEIDE for a few months now and I'm confronted with very annoying bugs a hundred times a day.

Like the popup of the IOC editor every time I change the perspective.

Like extremely long roundtrip time of about one minute on a modern Mac system for a small program (STM32WL).

Like incorrectly generated code from the ioc tool. ("radio_driver.c -> void SUBGRF_Init( DioIrqHandler dioIrq ) .. RADIO_INIT();" is undefined)

Like the bad info when the ST-Link V2 fails (I had a cable break on the SWDIO line. I think this can be monitored, like the "board is under reset" if it was implemented).

Thanks for the answer. But it could be better.

Greetings,

 Frank Hefter