Ahh, okay… I’d not even attempted to use the “clear” button, I had no idea it had anything to do with excluding folders being as there was a separate button! - infact I thought it might completely delete the folders from the hard drive - the onmousover text says “Destroys the selected folder, including it’s files and subfolders”
It does seem to work though, but only temporarily - although the folders and their contents do seem to be removed from the Application Root list, they still reappear in the folder tree upon clicking “update” or reloading a project.
Also, it still doesn’t seem to be able to cope with folders that contain a large number of subfolders and files - at least not in my case.
First I tested with my current project and used the clear button to exclude a couple of folders that contained just a few subfolders that contained a small number of files - they seem to have been removed and dissappeared from the file tree in the display (although as explained, when I hit update they reappear in the display - whether they are still getting compiled in the app I’m not so sure).
However, when I tested with a new project with the root as my main development folder then used the clear button to remove the two main folders I really need the app to ignore that contain lots of subfolders and files (probably about 30 subfolders, each containing several more subfolders, with each of those containing anything up to 500 files) the app throws an error.
Basically, the clear button seems to work fine at first and the two main folders initially appear to have been removed from the project, however, after removal, when clicking update, or attempting to compile, or attempting to save the project, exeoutput freezes and after a while shows an error message (with the option to send a bug report).
Could it be that maybe the live file update feature is still be attempting to scan the “destroyed” folders further down the file tree for changes regardless of whether they’ve been removed with the clear button or not? - thus the reason it takes so long & appears to freeze when the folders contain so many files? (when the error report option appears, I click to continue with the app, and wait… and wait… and wait… and nothing happens - so whether it’s just taking a long time or actually crashing I’m not yet sure…)
Any clues??
(I can send a bug report if you like?)