[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Source not Found

[David Wegener <dpwegener@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Emory wrote:
> When I look at the build path source file it has my class/src folder 
> there, when I remade my workspace I opened a text editor to copy and 
> paste the source files in instead of importing the project or the source 
> code, as I've had trouble with that in other compilers/languages before, 
> when I *run* the project it gives output (wrong output, but output none 
> the less) its when I try and step through and debug the program it can't 
> find the source files, so I think the problem resides within the 
> debugger somewhere.  Even when I try and debug the specific line that 
> does give output (its a linked list phonebook, so the output I get is 
> ONE of the names that I put in, out of four) it still says source not 
> found for the file, even though the run command obviously gets something 
> out of it.
Have you tried doing a clean on the project (and a build if you don't 
have auto build turned on).  If the text editor you used to copy/paste 
was outside of Eclipse, it may not have built/indexed your source files.