Re: Great SWT Program

In article <RbqdnRQtI4xmaHbbnZ2dnUVZ_uqvnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Lew <lew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Example: I dabble a little with Eclipse. For reasons that seem
good to me (though that might be debatable), I often create groups
of small projects in which the source code lives somewhere other
than in Eclipse's workspace. If I move that source code later,
I haven't found any way to tell Eclipse about that other than to
delete the old projects and create new ones, one at a time, using
the GUI, which I find tedious beyond words. If configuration
information were stored in text files, I could just do a
mass edit and change all occurrences of OldPathToSource with
NewPathToSource, which would be a lot less work. (Risky? Maybe.
If I were worried, I'd make a backup copy of everything first.)

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NetBeans lets you simply "open" the project from the new directory. You can
also configure project properties to point to arbitrary source directory
locations.

Huh. Not sure that would help, but maybe. Might have to try
NetBeans in addition to Eclipse, though it's hard enough for me
to convince myself to get familiar with *one* IDE :-), and the
people I work with seem to favor Eclipse.

Eclipse lets you build projects based on other projects. For that IDE locate
subprojects where you want them and refer to them from projects in other
locations.

Neither of these answers might work, possibly, in your immediate problem, but
they may provide future options.

Yeah .... I'm not hearing you say anything, though, about how to
cope with -- really, it's kind of the filesystem equivalent of
rearranging the furniture, and it's something I do, well, maybe
more often than some people -- putting stuff one place, and then
deciding that a different organization of files and directories
would be better, and moving things around. I do sometimes wonder
whether I'm the only one that does such things, because some of
these new-fangled tools sure don't make it easy ....

Another way to cope, I suppose, would be to just put everything
in Eclipse's workspace (possibly having multiple workspaces), and
hope it provides drag-and-drop features that would make all that
rearranging easy. Then the source code files are less easy to
find with other tools (yeah, sometimes I'd rather just compile
and run something from a command line), but .... <shrug>

Hey, this is almost on topic?

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B. L. Massingill
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