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Is this intentional? Am I missing something? I suppose I could just open the existing files and copy/paste their contents into a New class under a Project, but that seems awfully tedious and far too time-consuming to be reasonable.
]]>D F2012-09-10T04:03:00-00:00Re: Opening Files
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File->Import...->General->* to import things into your workspace.
You'll want to import them into a Java Project's source folder.
On 10/09/2012 6:03 AM, D F wrote:
> Is it possible to simply open a file, save/compile it, and run it?
> I've been at it for a few hours and I'm only able to run a new class
> file created under a project. I can not open simply open and run a
> file, and even with a project up I am unable to bring an existing file
> into the project; it just opens and I have the same problem.
>
> Is this intentional? Am I missing something? I suppose I could just
> open the existing files and copy/paste their contents into a New class
> under a Project, but that seems awfully tedious and far too
> time-consuming to be reasonable.
>]]>Ed Merks2012-09-10T06:52:05-00:00Re: Opening Files
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Nitin Dahyabhai2012-09-10T06:53:11-00:00Re: Opening Files
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> Is it possible to simply open a file, save/compile it, and run it? I've
> been at it for a few hours and I'm only able to run a new class file
> created under a project. I can not open simply open and run a file, and
> even with a project up I am unable to bring an existing file into the
> project; it just opens and I have the same problem.
>
> Is this intentional? Am I missing something? I suppose I could just open
> the existing files and copy/paste their contents into a New class under
> a Project, but that seems awfully tedious and far too time-consuming to
> be reasonable.
Eclipse is really for building applications.
In my most active work spaces, I keep a scratch project around in which
I can just throw something quick to try out]]>Russell Bateman2012-09-10T13:59:37-00:00