Re: Eclipse on OSX - setting a different workspace?

From: Felix Uelendahl (Felix.Uellendah..g.fh-giessen.de)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 17:36:22 EDT

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    Hi Piere!

    Thank you for answering!
    Good to know!

    Felix.

    Am Mittwoch, 07.05.03, um 13:59 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Pierre
    Bernard:

    > On a Win2K machine, I had to double qute the -data argument provided
    > as argument to the shortcut: -data "D:\Development\workarea"
    >
    > Pierre.
    >
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Felix Uelendahl [mailto:Felix.Uellendah..g.fh-giessen.de]
    > Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 1:39 PM
    > To: woproject-de..bjectstyle.org
    > Subject: Re: Re: Eclipse on OSX - setting a different workspace?
    >
    >
    > Sorry for asking for the eclipse problem,
    > but this is the only place where I have found good infos
    > about this problem !
    >
    > I have done, what Ulrich Köster worte, but it does not work for me.
    >
    > Using:
    > mac osx 10.2.5 (including jdk1.4.1)
    > eclipse_R-2.1-200303272130
    >
    >
    >
    > I used the "Property List Editor" to edit the Info.plist file,
    > tried to ad one of my new Lines as first and as last argument,
    > (tried to put the "Volume" infront of the Path)
    >
    > <string>-data /Users/felix/workspace</string>
    > <string>-data /Macintosh:HD/Users/felix/workspace</string>
    > <string>-data /Macintosh%20HD/Users/felix/workspace</string>
    >
    > But eclipse started every time with creating a new workspace in
    > /Applications/eclipse/...
    >
    > Here my Info.plist file cuted out some lines:
    > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
    > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
    > <plist version="1.0">
    > <dict>
    > ...
    > <key>Java</key>
    > <dict>
    > <key>Arguments</key>
    > <array>
    > <string>-noupdate</string>
    > <string>-consoleLog</string>
    > <string>-showlocation</string>
    > <string>-os</string>
    > <string>macosx</string>
    > <string>-ws</string>
    > <string>carbon</string>
    > <string>-data /Users/felix/workspace</string>
    > </array>
    > ...
    >
    > What I have made wrong?
    > May thanks for a help!
    >
    > Best regards,
    > Felix.
    >
    >
    >> Thanks for that. I had played with this file, but it means that other
    >> users on the system would share the same workspace, and when I
    >> upgrade
    >> Eclipse, I have to do this again. I guess in the meantime this will
    >> have to do.
    >>
    >>
    >> For once I am envious of Windows users, where they can set the target
    >> of a shortcut. Told you I was having a bad day :-)
    >>
    >>
    >> Thanks again - you are a star for developing WOLips for the rest of
    >> us.
    >>
    >>
    >> Geoff
    >>
    >>
    >> On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 09:33 pm, Ulrich Köster wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >>> Hi Geoff,
    >>>
    >>> open Eclipse application package. Control click on Eclipse.app ->
    >> show
    >>> package contents.
    >>>
    >>> Open the file Contents/info.plist with TextEdit.
    >>>
    >>> In the file is a line nearly like this "-consoleLog -os macosx -ws
    >>> carbon" add "-data /Volumes/Users/workspace" to it. There is no need
    >>> to call the workspace workspace. Any valid folder is okay . Eclipse
    >>> creates a .metadata folder in it.
    >>>
    >>> Ulrich
    >
    >
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