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I Broke Eclipse!

Stan James
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I've done something to Eclipse so that File/Save no longer forces the kind of compile I'd like. For example, it doesn't clear an error from the task list as it should. I have been right clicking on the project and selecting Build to get what I want. Is there a simple setting I turned off somewhere? This may have started when I added a Metrics plugin.


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Matthew Phillips
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Click on the Windows menu and go to preferences. If you click on Workbench, there is a checkbox for "Perform build automatically on resource modification." Make sure that is checked.


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Lasse Koskela
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Psst. Try Ctrl-B. It's your friend.


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Stan James
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Thanks, I'll give the preferences a check when I get back to the sick machine. Ctrl-B is quicker than mousing over there. Thanks!
 
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