EVOLVE

I usually make a new workspace for every project that I create in Eclipse/FDT and I have to save out my preferences (as you can see on the downloads page) because every time you create a new workspace it resets the preferences to the default. When I originally wanted to do this I found that it wasn’t as easy as I expected so here is a quick rundown of exporting and importing your preferences in Eclipse.

To export, go to File > Export > General > Preferences. Type in your file name (I usually append a .prefs extension to mine, I think I saw that somewhere and just started to use that as a convention) and click Finish. The default settings should be fine.

To import, go to File > Import > General > Preferences. Click Browse to find your preferences file on your hard drive and then click Finish. Voila, all your preferences are loaded!

You’d think this would be as simple as a button in the preferences panel but it was kind of buried in this mess.

I’ve gone ahead and added my FDT 3/AS3 templates and my FDT 3/AS2/AS3 preferences for users who want to download those and use it in FDT 3. I’m not sure how much use you would actually get out of these but I figured I’d post them anyway in case you wanted to try them out. It has my color coding and environment settings so who knows, maybe you’re the stalker type and want to see all that? Enjoy!