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I created a J2SE project from existing sources a couple of days ago. Now, I forgot which directory I created the project from. But I couldn't find it easily (at all?)from the IDE. The 'properties' tab for the project doesn't show this info. Even in the 'Files' tab, there was only one entry that read 'proejct name - src'. And the property on that node is even more confusing. It has a 'Name' field whose 'tip' at the bottom of the properties window says 'Name of the Object'! not very useful. Anyway, I think the actualy directory/folder for the project sources should be easily accessible, IMO. I am using a dev build from June 6, 2004.
Assigning to Jano for comment. Though I am not sure what the issue is - the tooltips in the Files tab indicate the full path. Maybe this needs to be made more discoverable somehow.
Yes. Most IDEs show source path as a project property. That is what I am asking for. Also, there was another comment about tooltips/tips explaining the property are not obvious. Things like 'Name of the Object' for a property called 'name' is not very useful.
Re. "Name of the Object" - no, that's not very helpful. Anyway the property sheet is not going to give you much useful information any more; we do not show it by default, either. The project customizer dialog is where everything of interest lives.
Agreed. The project properties should show all the relevant paths.
May be dupe of issue #46094.
Probably any reasonable GUI for issue #46354 (multiple source roots) would solve this issue automatically.
*** Issue 53762 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Should consider this.
Related feedback: when making a j2seproject from existing sources, using an external source root, it would be desirable to be able to retain the parent dir of the external source root (e.g. $dir for source root $dir/src) as a "generic" source folder for the project, so that it would appear at least in the Files tab. Would require a little bit of extra metadata in project.xml and project.properties to remember that $dir is a generic source folder, and a trivial patch to the Sources impl to register it. More cumbersome is finding a way in the UI to ask whether this should be done, since it is not automatically true that the user wants this; $dir/src might be all there is (and $dir/src2 might belong to some other project). Furthermore, the UI to adjust this would have to be not only in the New Project wizard, but also in the project properties dialog, in case the user is starting with an empty project and adding an external source root later.
I think this was fixed by multiple source roots in NetBeans 4.2. Source root paths now appear in the project properties dialog.