[Eric] Praise & (stupid?) question

[Mike Morris]

> One trick that works in most IDEs and on most platforms is to create a
> new file, start editing that file, click "File->Save As" and in the
> resulting dialogue go to the parent directory that you wish to add a new
> directory to and then right click and select New->Directory then type in
> the name of the new directory. This will create a new directory even if
> you then select cancel on the file save dialogue.

Bingo! That'll work! Thanks Steve, an elegant "work around".

Gratefully,

MikeM





On 07/05/2017 10:30 PM, Steve Barnes wrote:
>
> On 06/07/2017 00:18, Mike Morris wrote:
>> On 07/04/2017 11:47 PM, Burkhard Schilling wrote:
>>> Oh sorry, i mean: "add new source Directory" . is it what you need?
>> Certainly sounds like it, doesn't it? But it's not... this does not
>> actually add a Directory; it will find any source files in the specified
>> (pre-existing) directory, and add them to the Project. But, no, it does
>> not actually create a directory.
>>
>> Right-click's "New package" *DOES* create a directory, but it has two
>> side effects which are not always desirable:
>>
>>    * Adding the directory to the Project (not what I want when creating
>>      dirs for project management, obsolete versions, dev notes, etc)
>>    * Creating an __init__ file in the directory... a minor annoyance
>>      since it's zero bytes, but could conceivably cause mischief by
>>      adding a package to the namespace unintentionally.
>>
>> Right now I'm just using OS tools to create new, non-package dirs... I'm
>> just surprised that eric doesn't appear to support that directly...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> MikeM
>>
> One trick that works in most IDEs and on most platforms is to create a
> new file, start editing that file, click "File->Save As" and in the
> resulting dialogue go to the parent directory that you wish to add a new
> directory to and then right click and select New->Directory then type in
> the name of the new directory. This will create a new directory even if
> you then select cancel on the file save dialogue.
>