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I'm not sure where this belongs, but I am experiencing what is most likely a memory leak in PSoC Creator itself?

When I leave PSoC creator open, actively working on an active project, for say 12-24hours, I notice that the build time starts to increase.  I'm just building the firmware part usaully.

For example, after working for about 12 hours, a rebuild is takes about 13.5 seconds.  (I just added a space to the open file and re-built the project).  Then, I closed PSoC creator, re-opened the project, added another space, and rebuilt.  This time, it took only 2.9 seconds.

This happens with other projects I work on as well.

I had noticed this in earlier versions, and was told that this latest version had some memory leak fixes.  They are apperently not all gone.

I'm happy to provide whatever information you need, and have an archive of the project workspace attached, as well as the information from the about screen pasted below.

Thanks,

Scott

-------- From About PSoC Creator:

Environment:
PSoC Creator  4.1 (4.1.0.2686)
Culture: English (United States)
OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.15063.0
CLR Version: 4.0.30319.42000

Installed CyInstaller Products:
Peripheral Driver Library 2.1.0
PSoC Programmer 3.26.0
PSoC Creator 4.1

Loaded Plugins:
Name: Feedback Plugin
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Add a feedback page to the framework

Name: Customizer Loader
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Loads component customizers.

Name: Addin Discovery
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Discovers PSoC Creator addins (kits, language packs, etc)

Name: Device Catalog
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Device Catalog Plugin

Name: Documentation
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Adds the topics available in the documentation.

Name: Start Page
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Adds a start page to the framework.

Name: Output Window Plugin
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Adds the output window

Name: SCC Manager
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: The Source Code Control Manager is the central class used for SCC actions within PSoC Creator.

Name: Symbol, Schematic and SchMacro Factory
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: The Symbol and Schematic Factory is used to load, cache, and retrieve symbols and schematics.

Name: Project Manager Plugin
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Adds project management related functionality.

Name: GDE Plugin
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Loads the Symbol and Schematic editors

Name: Language Plugin
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Supports user files in multiple languages

Name: Workspace Factory
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: The Workspace Factory is used to retrieve instances of PSoC Creator workspaces.

Name: Project Factory
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: The Project Factory is used to retrieve instances of PSoC Creator projects.

Name: Toolchain Manager
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: PSoC Creator Toolchain Manager

Name: ARM GCC Generic
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: ARM GNU Generic

Name: ARM MDK Generic
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: ARM MDK Generic

Name: ARM IAR Generic
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: ARM IAR Generic

Name: DP8051 Keil Generic
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: DP8051 Keil Generic

Name: Device Selector
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Adds a dialog that allows the user to select a device.

Name: File Editor Factory Plugin
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Add file editors to the framework.

Name: Transport Framework
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Provides a generic device communication framework for use by other plugins.

Name: Debugger Core
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: The Core Debugger provides an architecture independent framework for the common debug features.

Name: PSoC Debugger
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Provides debugging support for the different PSoC families through a GDB back end.

Name: FM Debugger
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Provides debugging support for FM device families

Name: Device IO Transport
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Provides device IO support for Cypress devices though PSoC Programmer APIs.

Name: Serial Transport
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Provides basic serial device support for the rest of the tool.

Name: Bootloader Host
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Provides a host tool to perform bootloading operations.

Name: Background Elaborator
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: PSoC Creator Background Elaborator.

Name: TypeCache Factory
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: The TypeCache Factory is used to retrieve instances of TypeCaches.

Name: PSoC Fitter
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: PSoC Fitter Plugin

Name: FM Fitter
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: FM Fitter Plugin

Name: DWR Plugin
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Registers resource editors with devices.

Name: DMA Wizard
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Enables quick and correct development of applications that use DMA.

Name: Tuner Plugin
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: Manages custom component tuner executables

Name: Notice Window
Version: 4.1.0.2686
Company: Cypress Semiconductor
Description: The Notice Window displays notices (status messages / errors with managed lifetimes).

I have this expression in a parameter validator message field:

Trigger2 valid value(s): `=(!$ShrTrigger2?"blank B")` `=($ShrTrigger1 && $ShrTrigger2)?"A"` `=$ShrTrigger2?"B"

It gives me this error message:

$Trigger2 = Trigger2 valid value(s): Unexpected ')' at offset 25 Unexpected '' at offset 35 Unexpected '' at offset 17.

First, could anyone help me see what the expression problem is?

Second, the reported unexpected positions seem to be wrong (BUG?)

Dear community, 

when developing with PSoC Creator and a team of Embedded Systems Engineers,  we are using subversion systems like Git to keep track of changes to the software. This is a much better and more modern approach then sending zipped projects from person A to person B, which unfortunately is still very common among engineers all over the world.

Using git, svn or mercurial works great with the most part of our projects, as it's perfect for tracking changes to code files. However, the TopDesign.cysch file constantly gives us headaches. As it is saved in a binary format unknown to subversion systems, changes cannot be tracked, which leads to frequent confusion among the engineer about who did what change last. We had a couple of bugs because the TopDesign cannot be merged from a feature branch, and the engineer just blindly replace it his/her version, without taking into consideration that others also had made changes to the file. We need to log all changes made to this file separately, and inform all engineers about changes.

A solution to this problem would be to change the file format of the TopDesign.cysch file in a future PSoC Creator release. Instead of using a proprietary binary file format, you could choose to write a custom XML format, which would be totally suitable to store all necessary configuration information. 

I'd love to hear the thoughts about this within the Cypress Developer Community and also from Cypress themselves.