"Generate Visual Studio project files" automatically closes output window after error

Steazy
Tue, 21 Nov 2017 01:50:14 +0000
Platform & Builds

Using 4.16 installed via the Epic Launcher, I am updating a project from 4.15 to 4.16.

Generating project files fails because of an error, and then the output window is immediately auto-closed leaving about 1 frame to try and read the error message.

Probably the most frustrating thing I’ve ever experienced on a computer.

I’m poking around to see if the output is written to a file somewhere, but seriously… if a warning or error occurs generating project files please don’t close the output window. It would be really useful to be able to see what the error message was, plus it’d be nice if there was some difference in output between success and failure.

As it stands, in both cases the progress bar goes to 100% and then the window closes, if I didn’t compulsively click “Show Log” and delete the old project.sln I wouldn’t even know there was anything wrong (until I opened Visual Studio and it gave me an error out of the Dead Sea Scrolls).

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