This tab of the VisBuildPro Project action specifies the project to build and launch settings.

 

Filename: The filename of the project to build (required).

 

Note: When a VisBuildPro Project action is selected in a Step pane, View | Shell on menu (or right-click menu) can be used to launch the chained project in Visual Build.

 

Mode: Which command-line app to launch.  If Match build context is selected, if the step is built from the GUI App, another instance of the GUI App will be launched; if built from the Console App, the Console App will be launched to build the chained project.  If the GUI App is launched and the build is single-stepped (F10) for the action, the child project will be started with debugging (single-step) as well.

 

Run GUI App in silent mode: Adds the /s switch to the GUI App command-line.

 

Note: Check this option and uncheck Don't close GUI App if build fails to cause the chained instance to exit on build failure.

 

Pause at first step for debugging: Adds the /d switch to the GUI App command-line.  When chaining to a project on the local computer, this flag will also be added automatically if the VisBuildPro Project step is single-stepped.

 

Don't close GUI App if build fails: Adds the /f switch to the GUI App command-line.  Normally, when silent mode is specified, the chained app closes on a failure; this option can be used to override that behavior.

 

Capture output: If checked, any output that the chained Visual Build instance writes to standard output will be captured and logged.

 

Notes:

 

Start In: The path that will be the starting directory for the child process (optional).

 

Create Scheduled Task: Click this button to automatically create a Scheduled Task using all the settings configured for the step.  Any changes to the step will be applied before the task is created.