In Eclipse, how can I hide empty packages?

[Kaydell Leavitt]

In Eclipse, in the package explorer, a number of empty packages are showing up. How can I hide them?

Thanks.

Kaydell


[ July 06, 2007: Message edited by: Kaydell Leavitt ]

[Campbell Ritchie]

Don't know. But you can always delete them if they really are empty . . .

[Tim Holloway]

There's an option to present package names as either flat or hierarchical. You might want to lool at that.

Caution: Although a package may show as "empty", what the unshaded icon really means is that no Java classes are in it. There might be images or other non-java resources in there.

[Kaydell Leavitt]

I've tried to delete the empty package but nothing happens. I used to get an error message that said "out of synch with the file-system" but that's not happening anymore.

I'll try to find the preference that you're referring too.

I could start a new workspace and setup my preferences again.

Thanks for your help.

Kaydell

[Ilja Preuss]

Originally posted by Kaydell Leavitt:
I've tried to delete the empty package but nothing happens.

In your screenshot, the packages aren't empty - the don't contain classes, but subpackages. That's why you can't delete them.

Take a look at the menu of the package explorer (the black triangle at its right top, if I remember correctly). If I remember correctly, there is a layout entry where you can change from "flat" to "tree". There might even be an option to filter empty packages in the flat view, I'm not sure.

[Kaydell Leavitt]

Thanks Ilja, filtering out empty packages did the trick. Now, I feel organized again.

Kaydell


[ July 07, 2007: Message edited by: Kaydell Leavitt ]

[Rene Wooller]

I found I was able to permanently remove them, not just filter them if I removed the packages from the build path first. If I didn't remove them from the build path, they would pop back, and it was playing havoc with my war export.

[Haydar Kadum]

To hide empty packages:

Select the Filters command from the Package Explorer's drop-down menu.
In the exclude list select the checkbox for Empty packages.


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