Auto Save on Run

General
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Somehow I had the impressiong that Xojo auto saved a project each time it was run. I just had a crash and when I restarted my project I got an alert if I wanted to recover unsaved version. I said yes but it took me back to a verision well over a day old.

Was I under a false illusion? Do I have to do something to make it auto save on run? Kind of bummed at the moment

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Don’t know where you got the “impression” but it is incorrect. Get in the habit of hitting cmd-S before cmd-R

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You can add a build step script before the gear in the target Build settings (for instance Macintosh or Windows, one of them if you do both) with in it :

DoCommand "SaveFile"

It will save your project every time you run.

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@Michel Bujardet Thanks! That was just the ticket.

5

It IS supposed to auto save every time you run. It saves into appdata, though, not over the actual project.

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The IDE saves a COPY of the project when you RUN in the event the IDE crashes when you run

It does NOT auto overwrite or save to the existing project

7

Just got a crash yesterday and source was lost.
Found Sources in AppData folder.

Build script did not work; didn’t get it to run.

AutoHotkey does the work:

#IfWinActive, ahk_class RBWindow
CapsLock::Enter ;auto complete with "nearly" tab
F5::
Send ^s ^r      ;save and run
return

After pressing F5 in Xojo windows it send ctrl-s and ctrl-r.

8

my IDE crashes a lot !!! Xojo does autosave before it runs every time.

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a build script that runs before the build step