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I have a big recompile runing, but pressing "Cancel" on the "Progress Information" does not stop the compile, neither does it seem to impress Eclipse in any other way. I do have "autocompilation on change" switched on. I started the compile by adding some resource directory in some other project as a "class file" directory to the build CLASSPATH, which I'm (now) sure was a dumb thing to do.
The compiler checks for cancellation each time it writes out a classfile. So if it is thinking for a long time, writing no file out, then cancel will seem not to occur. Kent- can you double check we don't miss an obvious case ? Maybe we should check in other places in the builder as well ?
Adding a binary folder to a project invokes a full build so I suspect it took a while for the compiler to finish compiling the 'first' source file. A full build will scrub the output folder and recompile all the source files. The builder can only check the cancel button when the compiler provides it with 'new' .class files. How long did it take before it cancelled?
Don't know how long it took. Actually, I faintly remembered I might have simply killed eclipse. This has been a (rather eventful) week, I don't remember those details any more. Sorry.
Double checked the calls to cancel... looks fine. Closing.
