Re: [platform-debug-dev] context-sensitive launching

[Darin Wright <Darin_Wright@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I want to take advantage of context-sensitive launching in our 
> product, but don't want to provide a launch shortcut. Looking at the 
> platform code, it seems that's not possible. No doubt I'm overlooking 
> something, but I don't see why the context sensitive launch logic 
> absolutely requires a shortcut. Launch configurations can have an 
> association with an IResource, and the ones created by our product do 
> (they are associated with projects). Seems to me, given the currently 
> selected IResource, the platform should be able to find the (first) 
> launch configuration associated with it--without any involvement of 
> a shortcut.
> 
> I imagine a context sensitive launch incorporating this logic:
> 
> for (each launch configuration)
> {
>   - is this launch configuration associated with the selected IResource
>     - if yes, launch it
>     - if no, is this launch configuration associated with the project 
> the IResource belongs to
>        - if yes, launch it
> }
> 
> I suppose there is something I'm not considering.

In the case that a launch configuration does not exist, the platform 
requires a shortcut in order to create/populate a configuration with the 
correct attributes/values for a given resource.

> If a shortcut truly 
> is necessary, I don't mind contributing a shortcut, but I don't want 
> it accessible to the user. That is, I should be able to contribute 
> the shortcut for the sake of the meta information that the 
> context-sensitive launch apparently needs, but I don't want it 
> appearing as an action the user can invoke. That, too, doesn't seem 
> possible today.

Correct - there is currently no way to hide a shortcut from the user 
(except for disabling it, which would also hide it from the platform).

I agree with your observation, however. If a resource mapping exists for a 
configuration, the platform should be able to launch without a shortcut. 
Please enter a bug for this.

Darin