funky IDE

[Marcus Deviln]

My eclipse IDE sucks. When I type some code in the scrapbook it gives me this message "invalid syntax import delete this token" It always seems to give me an error message. I then type the code in netbeans and it compiles.

[Henry Wong]

Eclipse works fine here... Maybe you have a config issue? Anyway, what would you like done?

If you like to try to resolve this issue, I can move this topic to the IDE forum for you.

If you are just venting... then let us know too, so we'll know that you don't need any help here.

Henry

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Marcus --

Eclipse scrapbook pages aren't meant to contain complete Java translation units, just short snippets of executable code. You can't type import statements or package statements, among other things.

Instead, to import classes to a scrapbook page, right-click to get the context menu, and pick "Set imports".

[Marcus Deviln]

Mr. wong you can delete my posting or otherwise dispose of it. I think the other gentleman enlightened me that I was expecting too much of the scrapbook. I still have a lot to learn about using these IDE's