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How does one edit a non project Java file? [message #49387]

Wed, 04 June 2003 18:26

Eclipse User

Folks,

JBuilder permits the user to view/edit a Java file anywhere on disk, even if
it is not part of a project. How does one do this within Eclipse? Must the
file first be imported into a project?

???

Thanks,

Re: How does one edit a non project Java file? [message #49597 is a reply to message #49387]

Wed, 04 June 2003 22:16

Eclipse User

Paul Duffy wrote:

> Folks,
>
> JBuilder permits the user to view/edit a Java file anywhere on disk, even if
> it is not part of a project. How does one do this within Eclipse? Must the
> file first be imported into a project?
>
> ???
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
It's coming:

http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/eclipse_project_p lan_3_0.html

( expanded 2.1 deferred item) Allow editors to open files outside
workspace. A common request is to be able to use Eclipse to open a file
that is not part of the workspace, or perhaps even one on a remote
system. In addition, applications would like to provide file extension
associations so that double-clicking on a file in the OS desktop would
open the associated Eclipse editor. The operations and capabilities
available on these "outside of the workspace" files would need to be
defined. [Platform UI] [Themes: User experience] (37935)

--
Marcus

Re: How does one edit a non project Java file? [message #50501 is a reply to message #49387]

Thu, 05 June 2003 11:53

Eclipse User

Paul Duffy wrote:
> Folks,
>
> JBuilder permits the user to view/edit a Java file anywhere on disk, even if
> it is not part of a project. How does one do this within Eclipse? Must the
> file first be imported into a project?

This question is asked 2-3 times a week. Not that I blame you - maybe if
the news archive search didn't take 5 minutes to return results it would
be more useful. Anyway, it's planned for 3.0. For now you can try
filedrag and see if it meets your needs.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71601& amp;release_id=150958

Jeff

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