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Find classes in Eclipse [message #298983]

Wed, 08 February 2006 13:33

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: dirk.d.telenet.be

Hi,

I'm thinking about switching from Borland JBuilder to Eclipse. In JBuilder
there's a cool 'Search classes' dialog under the Search menu. The shortcut
is ctrl + minus. It has a list and tree (package) view. Can anyone tell me
what's (and if) there's an equivalent function in the Eclipse IDE?

Thanks in advance,
Dirk

Re: Find classes in Eclipse [message #298984 is a reply to message #298983]

Wed, 08 February 2006 13:45

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: mailinglists.nick-wyatt.de

i'm not quite sure if this is what you are looking for,
but try strg + shift + t

nick

Dirk Daems schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about switching from Borland JBuilder to Eclipse. In
> JBuilder there's a cool 'Search classes' dialog under the Search menu.
> The shortcut is ctrl + minus. It has a list and tree (package) view. Can
> anyone tell me what's (and if) there's an equivalent function in the
> Eclipse IDE?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dirk
>
>

Re: Find classes in Eclipse [message #298990 is a reply to message #298983]

Wed, 08 February 2006 14:02

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: automatic.javalobby.org

Depends what you mean by 'search'.

In Eclipse, you can do Open Type (Ctrl+Shift+T) which allows you to type in a class name (with wildcards, so *Exception gives you a list of all the exceptions). You can also navigate to a class using the Ctrl key whilst mousing around; if it's over a method or interface, you can jump directly to that one. Lastly, it is possible to specifically search for a method (or class) using the Search (Ctrl+H) menu, and you can search for both references and declarations (i.e. things that use class X or just where class X is defined).

There's a Java perspective which uses trees to represent everything, and a Java Browsing perspective which uses columns to represent projects/packages/types/methods. I don't know which of those closer matches your expectations.

Don't know if that is of any use, but that's what Eclipse has got :-)

Alex.

Re: Find classes in Eclipse [message #299014 is a reply to message #298984]

Thu, 09 February 2006 03:07

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: dirk.d.telenet.be

Yes indeed, ctrl + shift + t is what I was looking for!

Dirk

Re: Find classes in Eclipse [message #299074 is a reply to message #299014]

Thu, 09 February 2006 12:22

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse3.rizzoweb.com

Dirk Daems wrote:
> Yes indeed, ctrl + shift + t is what I was looking for!

Also make use of F3 - place the cursor on a class (or package or method
or variable) name and hit F3 to open the declaration of that element.

Hope this helps,
Eric

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