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Run Different Program? [message #1787262] Wed, 23 May 2018 00:33 Go to next message
Bronwyn Archer is currently offline Bronwyn ArcherFriend
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Hello,
I installed Eclipse nearly a year ago after learning how to use it. I haven't used it since, so I don't remember much of what I learned. The main difficulty I'm having is that when I create a new window, when I try to run it, it only runs the last thing I ran. To get something different to run, I have to create a new project and close all the other ones. Is there an easier way to do this? I don't remember having to do this last year.
Thank you!
Re: Run Different Program? [message #1787274 is a reply to message #1787262] Wed, 23 May 2018 05:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Patrick Moran is currently offline Patrick MoranFriend
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If you have several projects open in one workspace, Eclipse will compile the one that "has the focus," i.e., the one that would react if you tried to type something in, do a copy and paste, etc.

That being said, I haven't seen your problem. Maybe something else is happening. Maybe you closed project one a long time ago, are currently working on project three, do some editing, save, and press run. However, what comes out is that old program number one.

That kind of odd behavior can occur. I think it occurs because of failure of Eclipse to keep the invisible cache files properly separated. Recently I worked on a very simple demo program for making an image appear on a GUI screen. I put that aside and went back to working on a complicated program for managing a database, a program that has complications in it that defeat the WindowMaker editor and cause it to crash Eclipse. Fortune was not with me that day, Eclipse went into the infinitely spinning progress signal, and I had to force-quit. When I got back to the DB program, I reverted a couple of recent changes, saved, and pushed run. I was completely surprised when the image from that early program popped up, and there was no sign of DB or buttons and field appropriate to it. I had to go into my directory structure, make a new workspace, copy the most recent file into it, restart Eclipse, move to the new workspace, import that tricky file, and then when I opened it and ran it there was no longer any problem.

I had a longer, better, answer a while ago, but when I tried to view before posting this website crashed or something and I lost all my work. I hope what I have written this time will go through and that it will be of some benefit to you.
Re: Run Different Program? [message #1787315 is a reply to message #1787274] Wed, 23 May 2018 14:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bronwyn Archer is currently offline Bronwyn ArcherFriend
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I think I'm experiencing the same thing you described - I'm not sure what to do about it though. Thank you for letting me know that it might not just be user error.
Re: Run Different Program? [message #1787328 is a reply to message #1787315] Wed, 23 May 2018 18:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Nitin Dahyabhai is currently offline Nitin DahyabhaiFriend
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It sounds like you flipped a Launching preference page value or have settings carried over from when the default was different.

http://help.eclipse.org/oxygen/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/reference/preferences/run-debug/ref-launching.htm?cp=1_4_2_1_1


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Nitin Dahyabhai
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Re: Run Different Program? [message #1787343 is a reply to message #1787328] Wed, 23 May 2018 21:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bronwyn Archer is currently offline Bronwyn ArcherFriend
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I've never been to that page before, so I don't know if that could have happened accidentally? I don't understand most of the technical terms used in Eclipse yet, so I can't tell if one of my settings on that page needs to be adjusted. Here's what my launching preferences look like currently.

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Re: Run Different Program? [message #1787351 is a reply to message #1787343] Thu, 24 May 2018 02:52 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Patrick Moran is currently offline Patrick MoranFriend
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Uncheck "launch the previously launched" box near the bottom. Alternatively, hit the button to restore initial parameters.
Re: Run Different Program? [message #1787352 is a reply to message #1787351] Thu, 24 May 2018 03:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bronwyn Archer is currently offline Bronwyn ArcherFriend
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I'm already at the default parameters, so "launch the selected resource or active editor" is already selected. I've never changed any launching preferences before, so I'm not so sure this is the issue. Could uninstalling and reinstalling Eclipse help somehow?
Re: Run Different Program? [message #1787353 is a reply to message #1787352] Thu, 24 May 2018 03:19 Go to previous message
Bronwyn Archer is currently offline Bronwyn ArcherFriend
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If this is related in some way, there is another project I had stored on a flash drive from a different computer. Every time I try to run it, a box titled Run As comes up asking me to pick from two different kind of Ant Builds (I don't know what that means). Whichever one I pick, it gives an error saying "Build Failed. Reason: Unable to find an Ant build to run." I don't know if these two issues are connected, but if so, that's some more information to try and help solve it. Thank you so much.

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