[platform-ant-dev] How to use Ant to build my own projects

[kevin.duffey@xxxxxxxxx]

Hey all,

New member and user of Eclipse here. What an awesome 
idea. There are just a few issues I have with it, but 
for the most part it rocks. Better than JBuild, FAR 
better than Forte!

Anyway, I have an old text editor that allowed command 
line calls. I would use this to trigger my ant script 
and it worked great. Even better, it allowed hot keys 
like F1 - F12 and so forth to be assigned which made it 
super fast to do a build. So, two things related to Ant.

First, I tried the right-click on the Ant xml script I 
have, did a build, and it seemed to compile. In the 
toolbar I see the little running man icon, and I can 
select my script to build. However, it is now not doing 
any compiling. It seems to run the packaging part into 
the .jar file my build does, but it never seems to pick 
up the source changes and do a compile. When I clicked 
properties, it showed it being in the eclipse folder 
somewhere (forget where), so I changed it to use my 
c:\projects\myproject\scripts\build.xml. Still does the 
same thing. So, the first question is, how can I use my 
build script in my own project /scripts folder? By the 
way, I added a NEW project, but selected my old folder 
for it, where I keep all my projects. I can edit all the 
code just fine, just seems not to pick up any changes 
during the build.


Second thing, is there any "hot" keys that I can assign 
to just press a key to do my build as opposed to having 
to use the mouse to right-click on my xml script and do 
the Run Ant and then check the target I want and hit ok, 
OR use the running man icon and selecting it? I find 
using keyboard shortcuts save a lot of time and I am 
hoping eclipse allows the ability to assign a hot key to 
execute an external task. If not, any chance this is 
coming in a version soon?

Thanks.
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