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0008664CMakeQtDialogpublic2009-03-03 20:342016-06-10 14:30
ReporterEric Wing 
Assigned ToClinton Stimpson 
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityN/A
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product VersionCMake-2-6 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0008664: CMakeGUI: Feature Request: "Open Generated Project" button
DescriptionIn introducing CMake to some new people using Visual Studio, Eclipse, and Xcode, it became obvious that an easy way to launch the generated project would be very useful. There was a lot of fumbling to find this project on the file system and get it opened in the IDE of choice.

It would be very handy to have a button right next to "Generate" that was intended to open the project in the IDE immediately. (On Mac and Windows, it should behave like double-clicking the file in Finder/Explorer).

This would make CMake much friendlier to newbies and greatly improve the work-flow pattern I was seeing.


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has duplicate 0012914closed  GUI Idea : an "open project" button 
related to 0008260closed Clinton Stimpson add "build" button to cmake-gui ? 
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2009-03-03 20:34Eric WingNew Issue
2009-03-03 21:25Bill HoffmanStatusnew => assigned
2009-03-03 21:25Bill HoffmanAssigned To => Clinton Stimpson
2011-01-18 12:11David ColeRelationship addedrelated to 0008260
2011-01-18 12:19David ColeCategoryCMakeSetup => QtDialog
2012-01-25 14:22Alex NeundorfRelationship addedhas duplicate 0012914
2012-01-25 14:24Alex NeundorfNote Added: 0028406
2012-08-13 23:25Clinton StimpsonStatusassigned => backlog
2016-06-10 14:27Kitware RobotNote Added: 0041510
2016-06-10 14:27Kitware RobotStatusbacklog => resolved
2016-06-10 14:27Kitware RobotResolutionopen => moved
2016-06-10 14:30Kitware RobotStatusresolved => closed

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(0028406)
Alex Neundorf   
2012-01-25 14:24   
In duplicate 0012914, Michael wrote:

Here's a common workflow I have : open CMake GUI, configure, generate, then open windows file exporer, find the directory where I put the build files, double click on the project file...
I have a feeling that it could be further streamlined simply by adding a "open project" button on CMake's GUI.
Of course, you could argue that it's irrelevant in quite a few cases (when there's no IDE associated with the generated file, for example with gcc makefile), but the button could be displayed only when it's relevant for the selected generator.
(0041510)
Kitware Robot   
2016-06-10 14:27   
Resolving issue as `moved`.

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