[CMake] VS solution folder puts first project last

James Bigler jamesbigler at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 13:36:45 EST 2010


On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:30 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Am Mittwoch, 17. November 2010 schrieb James Bigler:
> >> > Has anyone else noticed situations where VS puts the first project (as
> >> > determined alphabetically) in a project folder as the last project?
> >>
> >> Yes, I have seen this when using the new FOLDER property for targets. I
> >> see
> >> this behaviour within the folders.
> >>
> >> Eike
> >
> > I'm wondering if this is something that CMake could control.  I've looked
> in
> > the VS sln file, and it appears that the projects are listed in the
> correct
> > order.  Perhaps there is something subtle going on that is causing this
> to
> > occur.
> >
> > James
> >
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> If you adjust their order in the VS gui, and then compare the sln file
> to before you did that.... what changes?
>
> I am guessing that the order we specify the guid mappings in the sln
> file is the thing that controls the order here. There is no code that
> guarantees alphabetical order within CMake (unless it is that way by
> lucky side-effect).
>
> But if you analyze and tell me what controls the order, it should be
> easy to generate alphabetical order for the future.
>
>
> Let me know,
> David
>

I thought of doing that, but I can't seem to adjust their order in the GUI
by dragging the projects around or by looking at the folder's properties.
Is there another method from the GUI to order the projects?

James
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