[platform-dev] Re: Eclipse is great, but...

["Nick Edgar" <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxx>]

Kevin,

These types of questions are better addressed to the eclipse tools 
newsgroup.
The *-dev mailing lists are for the development teams' internal 
discussions, whereas the newsgroup has many users and other developers who 
can answer your questions.

Eclipse does not currently support running Ant scripts on a keypress. 
However, we are currently investigating configurable keybindings for 
actions, and would like to include support for defining keybindings for 
Ant scripts as well.

To see the regular tree view of the workspace, use Window > Show View > 
Navigator.
In the packages view, you can hide jar files by using the view menu (the 
triangle in the toolbar) and selecting Filters... / Hide referenced 
libraries.

As for the problem running Ant scripts, this sounds like a bug.
Please enter a bug report at http://bugs.eclipse.org, and specify the 
Platform-Ant component.


Regards,
Nick Edgar
Eclipse UI Team Lead

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Message: 1
From: kevin.duffey@xxxxxxxxx
To: platform-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 20:04:19 +0000
Subject: [platform-dev] Eclipse is great, but...
Reply-To: platform-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx

Hey all!

Ok, trying to get my head around switching my fav IDE 
(UltraEdit) to eclipse. I like most of what I see in 
eclipse but I do have a few issues I am hoping might be 
cleared up as I am a newbie to it and may just be 
overlooking some things.

First, are there any hot-key capabilities to execute my 
Ant build scripts? It appears I have to right-click on 
it and use Run Ant and so forth, or use the toolbar 
running man icon, select my script. Not to sound lazy, 
but being able to execute my build via pressing F5 or 
something, would be a bit faster and its how I do it in 
my present IDE.

Second, I am a big fan of seeing the project in a full 
tree view, as oppose to seeing my source code in the 
packages layout. Is there any way to change the look of 
my /src dir to use the tree view instead of displaying 
each package?

I also see a few other things, like the classpath .jar 
files I have assigned for this project. I like to see my 
project without these items. Any way to "hide" them or 
remove them so that they are not part of my project 
tree? I am not sure why they are displayed, to me they 
don't server any purpose, although it is kewl how you 
can open up the .jar, the .class files and see all the 
methods. Perhaps that is the purpose? So you can see all 
the methods you can call? Anyway, I'd like to be able to 
hide them if possible.

Also, when I do click on my script to run it, it keeps 
telling me javac12.exe couldn't execute, and tells me to 
make sure JAVA_HOME is set. It is set, to my JDK 1.3.1 
or 1.4.1 (depending on machine) so I am not sure why it 
is not able to execute. Any help there would be great.

As far as I can tell, those are my biggest issues. Any 
help would be appreciated.