[Eric] Praise & (stupid?) question

[Steve Barnes]

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.

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Steve (Gadget) Barnes
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