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Project files open uncontrollably and continue to reopen when closed [message #1387066]

Mon, 23 June 2014 16:41

Eclipse User

Hi, apologies in advance for whatever stupidities incurred.

I am running the eclipse bundled with adt that I obtained from android developer website (for some reason I cant place a link to it here).

I have used eclipse before, but have never witnessed anything like this. Sometimes after I have my project open and want to switch my view to a different file the eclipse window automactically switches to another file. For instance, when I want to look at res/layout/main.xml, I click on that file and the view opens briefly to this before switching to res/layout-small/main.xml. The behavior is completely uncontrollable. If I close res/layout-small/main.xml and go back to open res/layout/main.xml, eclipse seems to have a mind of its own and reopens res/layout-small/main.xml and switches the view back to that. If I wait long enough, perhaps several minutes, eclipse will allow me to edit the file I really want to edit.

I looked around any documents available but can see nothing that indicates that eclipse might have this behavior for any reason.

Help! Going nuts here.

Re: Project files open uncontrollably and continue to reopen when closed [message #1387076 is a reply to message #1387066]

Mon, 23 June 2014 19:14

Eclipse User

On 06/23/2014 02:55 PM, Apo Yoman wrote:
> Hi, apologies in advance for whatever stupidities incurred.
>
> I am running the eclipse bundled with adt that I obtained from android
> developer website (for some reason I cant place a link to it here).
>
> I have used eclipse before, but have never witnessed anything like this.
> Sometimes after I have my project open and want to switch my view to a
> different file the eclipse window automactically switches to another
> file. For instance, when I want to look at res/layout/main.xml, I click
> on that file and the view opens briefly to this before switching to
> res/layout-small/main.xml. The behavior is completely uncontrollable. If
> I close res/layout-small/main.xml and go back to open
> res/layout/main.xml, eclipse seems to have a mind of its own and reopens
> res/layout-small/main.xml and switches the view back to that. If I wait
> long enough, perhaps several minutes, eclipse will allow me to edit the
> file I really want to edit.
> I looked around any documents available but can see nothing that
> indicates that eclipse might have this behavior for any reason.
> Help! Going nuts here.

I have not experienced this behavior. It may be something the Android
Development Tools are doing. Please read this post:

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/225513/

Re: Project files open uncontrollably and continue to reopen when closed [message #1387079 is a reply to message #1387076]

Mon, 23 June 2014 20:07

Eclipse User

Ok, thanks. I read it. Apologies once again.

Re: Project files open uncontrollably and continue to reopen when closed [message #1387164 is a reply to message #1387079]

Tue, 24 June 2014 10:33

Eclipse User

If you do find an answer about why ADT does this, feel free to respond here; I'm curious myself and we do tend to get a lot of Android developers seeking answers on these forums (even though we try to direct them elsewhere when appropriate).

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