[Bluej-discuss] Two Feature Requests

[Chris Share]

>> 2. Would it be possible to have an option to remove a class without its 
>> source file being deleted?
>>
> 
> Why would you want to do this?
> 
> I'm sure there's some reason or obviously you wouldn't ask, but I can't help feel that it might be so obscure as to make adding the feature unwarranted. Certainly there are plenty of other ways to get the same effect (depending on exactly why you want to do it): you can copy the source somewhere else before you delete the class in BlueJ, you can rename the class, you can comment out the whole file...

Quite often I find myself using snippets of source code in my projects.
I usually don't want to add these to the project (as they won't
compile). It would be handy to be able to open these in BlueJ without
adding them to the project. It would also handy to be able to keep them
in the project folder even though they aren't actually part of the
project. I realise I can open these files in another editor (which is
what I do) however that means a lot of swapping between apps. Another
user recently suggested something similar:

> Having the ability to control other txt files from inside bluej would
> mean that users have the ability to store information such as
> development notes, plans, copied reference material, etc. in the same
> place, rather than having to save it outside of the project.

It's likely that some of this material would be .java files. I think it
would be useful to be able to open a .java file in BlueJ without it
being part of a project.

Would this be possible? I imagine that it would be easy to allow a file
to be opened in BlueJ but not have it part of the compilation. But maybe
I'm wrong :-)

Cheers,

Chris