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Opening External File in Eclipse3 [message #255652]

Fri, 25 June 2004 12:42

Eclipse User

Hello all,

Previously in Eclipse 2.x there was no way to open an external file which
is not the part of the project. But now that seems to be possible in
Eclipse3 using the File -> Open External File...

My question is as the functionality is provided there would be some
mechanism to do that using the api's too. I couldn't get it how to go
about doing the same.
Currently I am copying the external file into the project location,
refresh the project and then get IFile and then open the file. I am sure
there is a better means to handle the same. This is the code snippet how I
get the IFile

IProject ipProject = selectedResources[0].getProject();
//refresh the project to bring in the test cases created
ipProject.refreshLocal(IResource.DEPTH_INFINITE, null);
final IFile fileToOpen =
ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot().getFileForLocation( new
Path(fileName));

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Re: Opening External File in Eclipse3 [message #255793 is a reply to message #255652]

Fri, 25 June 2004 18:40

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: ed.burnette.REMOVE.THIS.sas.com

Look at the source code for
org.eclipse.ui.internal.editors.text.OpenExternalFileAction (through CVS or
by doing a binary import of the org.eclipse.ui.editors plug-in).

--
Ed Burnette, co-author, Eclipse in Action
www.eclipsepowered.org

"S Dixit" <siddhi1972@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:cbhkks$524$1@eclipse.org...
> Hello all,
>
> Previously in Eclipse 2.x there was no way to open an external file which
> is not the part of the project. But now that seems to be possible in
> Eclipse3 using the File -> Open External File...
>
> My question is as the functionality is provided there would be some
> mechanism to do that using the api's too. I couldn't get it how to go
> about doing the same.

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