[Steve Bang]

When MyEclipse is installed, I cannot use the Eclipse menu to open a file using “Open External File” under the File menu. When an external file is selected, the file doesn’t open and no error occurs. I thought it was an Eclipse 3.0 M6 issue until I tried doing this in both M6 and M7 without MyEclipse installed and it works fine. This is a big issue for three of us. Hopefully, it will be fixed in 3.7 — I didn’t see any bugs filed on this.

Steve

[nosrema]

What type of file are you opening?

[Steve Bang]

Just a JSP page from outside a project. It should work. It works in Eclipse without MyEclipse installed, and it’s happening on two different machines/users.

[Riyad Kalla]

sbang,
We were able to reproduce this bug and will be looking into it ASAP, we are sorry for the inconvenience.

[Steve Bang]

Thanks — it is very annoying to workaround this, so the sooner the better. 🙂 It breaks the typical work practice for us.

Steve

[Riyad Kalla]

I’ll see if we can bump this fix, but I can’t promise anything.

[Steve Bang]

Thanks. Just about every developer needs to regularly open external files, either to work on them briefly without opening up a project or just to copy and paste some code from them. So, while it may be seem to be a big deal, it’s already annoyed 3/3 ME users I personally know. I can’t imagine we’d be the only ones frustrated by this.

Thanks again for jumping on this.

Steve

[No Operation]

just some code from Eclipse3.0(M7)

    private IEditorInput createEditorInput(File file) {
        IFile workspaceFile= getWorkspaceFile(file);
        if (workspaceFile != null)
            return new FileEditorInput(workspaceFile);
        return new JavaFileEditorInput(file);
    }

Eclipse 3.0(M7) has the bad idea to open all external files as a Java file and JavaFileEditorInput does not implement the “correct” interfaces.

NOP

[Riyad Kalla]

hrrm, is this an existing open bug in their tracker?

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