[android-developers] Re: Eclipse packages and package explorer

ga...@deanblakely.com wrote:

I'm used to working with IDE's like Microsoft Visual Studio, Delphi,
and such.  I'm learning the android platform now and I'm using
Eclipse.  I'm going through all of the tutorials.

As I create new activities, I see Eclipse keeps track of everything I
have ever done and opens them all up in Package Explorer.  Will this
go on the rest of my life?  I'm used to having "projects" on disk
somewhere where I want them and then when I open up a project it opens
up just that project in Visual Studio, not also every project I ever
did.

Some projects have nothing to do with others.  I can see maybe
grouping related projects in a package explorer but not all projects.

I'm clearly missing some concept.  Can someone help me out with this?

This is an Eclipse question, not an Android one. Eclipse allows you to open up multiple projects - is this what you mean by "keeps track of everything [you] have done and opens them all up"? If so, it's you who opened them, not Eclipse.

You can use the context menu (secondary mouse-button click) to close individual projects, or close all the unrelated projects to the one on which you click. You can't blame Eclipse for showing you projects that you've opened and not closed. That's a feature, not a bug.

You can also open related projects in a particular workspace (project directory), and others in a different workspace. That's also a feature, not a bug.

You can also delete projects from a workspace, optionally deleting the files from the hard disk as well. Again, this is a feature, not a bug.

Holding Visual Studio up as the exemplar of IDE behavior is a bit like holding up Slobodan Milosovic's or Saddam Hussein's government as an historical exemplar of federated government. Their way isn't inherently the right way.

If you have this much trouble adjusting to the IDE, you're just going to hate Java. Don't expect much sympathy there; Java-bashing is a favorite activity of Java programmers and .Net acolytes alike.

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Lew

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