Usually when working with workspaces, you will have the option to switch wherever you keep your workspace. By deleting the workspace folder, it will reset your perspectives and views. You can also switch your workspace to a previously saved workspace when you really like your settings. The workspace is only to keep metadata about your development environment.
As for design versus code, Dreamweaver CS3 is about $400. You can get myEclipse professional for $52 or regular for $31. There is a free trial to try it out. You can see the features of myEclipse from: http://www.myeclipseide.com/module-htmlpages-display-pid-12.html There are plugins for Eclipse for just about every tool you can think of and you can mix, match and configure in quite detail. That is why workspace comes into importance as you want to save all your configurations. Two common eclipse plugin sites: http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/ http://eclipse-plugins.2y.net/eclipse/index.jsp Teddy ----- Original Message ----- From: Tom McNeer To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:04 PM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CFEclipse question - default project Seth, I'm not sure how you can re-set the default workspace -- which is the default space for saving projects. There's no obvious mechanism or documentation, and this question has been asked in a number of forums. But it's simple enough, when creating a project, to point it wherever you want. Eclipse will still keep track of it, and keep it in the Navigator tab. I often create the project in a space on my dev server, which is also the actual web space. I've been using Eclipse for probably a year and a half, and I still feel overwhelmed sometimes. It's the nature of the plug-in architecture it's built on. I just bang away, knowing there's all sorts of functionality I just don't even know about. Jeff, Aside from the cost issue can anyone give me some input on the pros and cons of Eclipse vs. DW/Homesite? I think they'll become pretty obvious as you continue to use Eclipse. It's going to feel unfamiliar and clunky for a long, long time. But I think you'll find it's worth the trouble. Homesite's dead, as far as Adobe's concerned. They "support" CFEclipse (sorta) and obviously use Eclipse for FlexBuilder. Actually, that's one good reason to get used to Eclipse. You'll probably want to start working with Flex, too. And that illustrates why Eclipse is a good tool: folks can, and do, constantly build new tools as plug-ins on top of it. You'll find yourself adding Javascript editors and XML editors and database tools that you prefer. Mark Drew, the CFEclipse guy, has already released CF8 syntax libraries for CFEclipse. And Adobe provides RDS plug-ins, if you've gotten used to them in Homesite. If you need to build visually, you'll use Dreamweaver. If not, you'll use Eclipse. I go back and forth all the time. And the more you separate presentation from the model, the more your individual files are going to be either all code, or all display with a little logic thrown in. So using both comes pretty naturally. There's a CFEclipse mailing list, by the way, although there's not a lot of activity on it. But if you ask questions there, people will help. And you'll find Eclipse-related conversations on CF-Talk, too. Good luck with it. You'll like it -- eventually. -- Thanks, Tom Tom McNeer MediumCool http://www.mediumcool.com 1735 Johnson Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306 404.589.0560 ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
