The File Cache / Substitutions tab allows you to specify the following:

 

•set where cached information is stored and when it gets cleared

•file path substitutions to handle copying builds from build machines to development or test machines

 

The default settings are shown below:

 

 

 

Caching file locations

 

Thread Validator keeps a cache of known locations for files for which it needed to search, improving the speed at which files can be found.

 

•Cache Directory type directly or Browse to find a directory for Thread Validator to cache its information

 

 

By default, the cache is only flushed when the executable changes between sessions.

 

•Flush cache at each new session tick to flush the cache every session

 

This slightly slows down relaunch of the same executable, as the cache needs rebuilding.

 

•Flush cache when executable changes untick to prevent the cache being flushed at all  

 

 

When not automatically flushing, you can manually flush the cache if necessary:

 

•Flush Cache flush the cache now

 

This is only possible when no sessions are in the session manager. The button will be disabled if any sessions are loaded.

 

 

File Path Substitutions

 

Some software development schemes have multiple rolling builds of their software, often enabled by using substituted disk drive naming schemes.

 

When you download the build to your development machine for development and testing, debugging information may reference disk drives that don't exist on your machine, for example, drive X: while your machine only has C:, D:, and E: drives.

 

Or you may just be copying a build from a drive on a development machine to a subdirectory on a drive on your test machine.

 

These options let you remap the substitution so that the Thread Validator looks in the correct place for the source code.

 

•Add adds a row to the File Paths Substitutions table enter the new path that will replace the old path in the New Path column click in the Old Path column enter the path that is being replaced

 

For example, you might enter c:\users\stephen\documents for the new path and f:\dev\build for the old path.

 

You can double click to edit drives and paths in the table, or remove items:

 

•Remove removes selected substitutions from the list

 

Alternatively, press to delete selected items, and + to select all items in the list first.

 

 

Example: Changed disk drive

 

Example: Project copied to a new location

 

 

Reset All - Resets all global settings, not just those on the current page.

 

 

Reset - Resets the settings on the current page.