Copied Project - Now properties, strings, settings don't change when edited

Jeff over 2 years ago

Using VS Code

Copied the entire project to another folder, created a new UUID, checked the manifest etc....

Don't see any references to the old directory in any files.

Made small edits to strings to see if changes are applied.

They don't show up in the Settings editor in the simulator.

Tried making small changes in the OLD project strings.

That doesn't cause changes to appear either.

Cleaned the project and re-ran.

No change.

Anyone have an idea what's going on and how to get to the point that edits in strings, properties and settings actually are used in a build ?

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Jeff over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58 +1

Thanks Jim

I found a solution before reading your reply.

The simulator's file handling seems to be the problem.

In the simulator I used File > Delete All Apps and the problem went away.

Thanks to…

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0 FlowState over 2 years ago

Do you still have the old project's PRG in the new project's bin\ folder? This kind of problem has come up before, and at the time, it looked like the simulator was running the first PRG (in alphabetical order) in the bin\ folder, not the actual PRG associated with your project.

forums.garmin.com/.../vs-code-plugin-can-run-the-wrong-prg-file-if-multiple-prgs-exist-in-the-bin-directory

0 Jeff over 2 years ago in reply to FlowState

Thanks, but there was only one PRG file in the bin folder.

I tried deleting the PRG files in both the old and the new project bin folders, rebuilt, no change.

I'd have thought that "Clean Project" would... well... clean the project, but it has no effect on this.

It also looks like the link you provided goes to a description of a problem that went unresolved.

Any other thoughts ?

0 jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to Jeff

Try deleting the whole bin folder for both projects, build the new one and see if bin is recreated for the new one.

Under bin, there are mir. gen and internal-mir folders used in some way for caching, and by deleting the whole bin folder, you get rid of these subfolders.

0 Jeff over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thanks Jim

I found a solution before reading your reply.

The simulator's file handling seems to be the problem.

In the simulator I used File > Delete All Apps and the problem went away.

Thanks to both of you.

0 FlowState over 2 years ago in reply to Jeff

Nice!

For future reference, the simulator working folder is available in windows at %TEMP%\com.garmin.connectiq\GARMIN (it's the same folder structure that you'd see on a real device.)

Your app PRGs will be present under GARMIN\APPS\ (along with settings and logs in the corresponding subfolders), in case you ever want to try to manually investigate this kind of problem.

It's strange that you changed the UUID and still had this problem (unless the new project had the same name as the old project.)

0 Jeff over 2 years ago in reply to FlowState

Thanks.

I did change the name of the project so there's still some mystery there... some proceedure that is apprently required when copying a project.

Thanks again... now back to real work.

0 jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to Jeff

Changing just the name means you'll have 2 prg files with the same manifest ID, and that can confuse the sim

0 FlowState over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

jim_m_58 said:
Changing just the name means you'll have 2 prg files with the same manifest ID, and that can confuse the sim

Jeff said:
created a new UUID,