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In the New Project dialog, the user is prompted for a project name and contents directory. The project contents directory is defaulted to the workspace\ directory + the project name. This field is read-only as the 'Use default' checkbox is checked. For convenience, I prefer to store my code (and build files) outside of the workspace\ tree as I transport files between my work and home machines and simply zip the code directory to move it between machines. Thus I use a directory structure like: C:\Projects\MyApplication\workspace - Eclipse-generated files only C:\Projects\MyApplication\Code - Source code directory C:\Projects\MyApplication\Build - Built files Eclipse puts its .metadata in workspace\, and I have directories under Code\ and Build\ for each Eclipse project in the workspace, eg: C:\Projects\MyApplication\workspace\.metadata\... C:\Projects\MyApplication\Code\Project1\... C:\Projects\MyApplication\Code\Project2\... C:\Projects\MyApplication\Build\Project1\... C:\Projects\MyApplication\Build\Project2\... When I create a new project (eg Project3), the dialog prompts me with C:\Projects\MyApplication\workspace\Project3 What I'd like to do is uncheck the 'Use default' and change 'workspace' to 'Code' Sadly, though, and the point of this request is that when I uncheck the 'Use default' checkbox, the directory field clears itself and I am left having to type the whole path in - which is prone to typos and mistakes. Would it be possible to leave the contents of the Directory field populated after the 'Use default' checkbox is unchecked?
No plan for 3.0
Reopening now that 3.0 has shipped
Preserving the path in the text field would useful for we who have separate workspace/contents dirs, but I think the scope of this bug should be expanded to include a preference for a default contents directory, perhaps just remembering the last entered contents directory as the default.
I agree with comment #3. My personal preference would be to either: 1) Be able to use the "Linked Resource" path variables to be able to specify something like CODE\myProject, where 'CODE' is a path variable that I have configured to be something like C:\Projects\MyApplication\Code OR 2) Be able to specify relative paths in this field so that I could put in something like ..\myProject - where the workspace location is the location that this is relative to. Better still would be if this was then configurable in the Build Path "Folders" configuration (currently defaulting to 'src', editable, but not supporting either relative paths or Linked Resource path specifications) OR 3) Absolutely peachy would then be a combination of the above where I could configure the default Source folder name (in Build Path) for my project to be CODE\$ProjectName - which would work for me every time, and I would just configure what CODE pointed to in my Linked Resources path variables. By the same token, I'd then like to be able to specify the default Output folder name to be BUILD\$ProjectName in the same way - but baby steps, eh??!!
another one for Karice
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2035 ***
