[Oberon] Unloading a project

[Douglas G. Danforth]

Chris,
Yes, I used to use

Dev > Unload Module List

But found that a little tiresome after using it for a long time.
My home grown solution needs only one mouse click to do
the same thing.

-Doug

On 12/24/2012 2:15 PM, Chris Burrows wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Douglas G. Danforth [mailto:danforth at greenwoodfarm.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 25 December 2012 8:15 AM
>> To: ETH Oberon and related systems
>> Subject: [Oberon] Unloading a project
>>
>> On 12/23/2012 9:02 AM, Aubrey.McIntosh at Alumni.UTexas.Net wrote:
>>> There is a command, System.Free, that will unload a module.  Normally
>>> it is not used, only when debugging a module.
>>> This is really powerful.  You can use everything in the system as it
>>> is, while unloading only 1 module (and any modules that call it).
>>>
> System.ShowModules is a good companion command for System.Free so you can
> see what is loaded.
>
>> In BlackBox, for my own convenience, I wrote a module called MyProject
>> what allows me to specify a single root module from which I can compile
>> all dependent modules and unload all dependent modules.  This is useful if
>> one modifies a module somewhere in the hierarchy and then needs to test
>> the result (hence all modules need to be unloaded).  MyProject scans the
>> IMPORT lists of all modules starting at the root.  It excludes BlackBox
>> system modules.
>>
> BlackBox also has two useful standard Menu commands similar to Oberon's
> System.ShowModules and System.Free that I use a lot:
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>    Info > Loaded Modules
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> Displays the list of loaded modules. You can highlight the ones you do not
> want any more (related modules are usually grouped together) and then
> select:
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>    Dev > Unload Module List
>
> Which then unloads the highlighted ones.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> Chris Burrows
> CFB Software
> http://www.cfbsoftware.com
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