Zend Studio underlines existing function names with yellow squiggly lines, even when I explicitly include a file that contains declaration of those functions.
Example:
It used to not do that and I was able to go to the function declaration names by right-click => Open Declaration. Now I can't. I do not know what had changed, it's just that one day those functions became underlined.
How can I enable/configure/restore this feature?
So far I have refreshed project, re-indexed project, re-imported the project, re-added file with function declarations hoping that will update the function database, included file with declarations explicitly. I disabled and re-enabled PHP Semantic Analysis. None of those worked so far.
From top-level menu, go to
Project
Properties
PHP
Include Path
Source
Add Folder
Add folders where your source functions are, press OK, wait for project DLTK indexing to rebuild. Voila!, no more squiggly lines and autocomplete works.
Even after the above worked, I still began to have other issues with my IDE, so what I did I completely uninstalled it, then reinstalled it, and re-created my workspace and re-downloaded my project from GitHub, and now things are back to normal. I will have to reset my project-specific and Zend Studio and other settings though.
I've just started with Visual Studio Code.
One thing I find really strange is, if my code compiles to an *.exe, and I select it in the explorer, VS Code tries to "open" it, as if it was a text file, and then complains it's a binary file.
Ideally, it should do nothing when I select it, and I should have to easy way of running it if I want, like "double-click" or some option in context menu. I don't want to hide the .exe, I just want VSCode to know it cannot edit it, so it shouldn't try.
[EDIT] In case someone wonders why I'd single-left-click on something where that click "makes no sense", it's because I've spent the last 15 years using an IDE where that does nothing except select the file in the explorer, and so I got into the habit of click on things while I'm "thinking about it", for example when I'm talking about this file to someone else. That's a hard habit to get rid of, in particular since I'm still using that IDE in my "day job".
As far as I know, this is not possible. There aren't any settings to control this and extensions can't block an editor from opening.
An extension COULD automatically close any tabs that were opened for a .exe file. So if you clicked on it and a tab opened, the extension could close it. I don't know if such an extension exists.
Otherwise you can create a feature request on github: https://www.github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/new
I am having trouble trying to activate(?) red error codes in MyEclipse Pro 2014 (I have the same problem in Eclipse Luna). I just downloaded it today and whenever I make an error, even on purpose like a misspelled keyword, MyEclipse won't show red marks on the side like how IDEs usually do. Is there any way I can fix this? Also, content assist doesn't work for me neither. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Check that you have the Java editor configured in preferences, file associations, as the default editor for Java files. If you're using the text editor, then content assist won't be available although errors should show up after saving the file. However, if you have disabled or removed the Java builder (in the project's properties Builders page), then no marks will show up. Try a new project in a new workspace to check if the problem persists.
I have a custom build-script for my site. I want to invoke this script whenever I press ctrl+b in eclipse.
I have configured a new builder seen at the top. While my own builder runs fine, eclipse also invokes "Validation" and "Script Builder". As far as I can tell these two do absolutely nothing, but take ages to complete.
I have tried to simply disable them, but eclipse just creates them again as another instance. (hence the duplicates)
I have tried to add an exclusion to * for the PHP Build Path, but that didn't do anything.
What do "Validation" and "Script Builder" do exactly? Why do they take so long and above all: how can I disable them?
The fact that these two builders are re-added after you disable them is a bug. Please file bug reports at bugs.eclipse.org. You will need to file separate bug reports as these two builders are maintained by different groups of people.
The Validation builder performs a variety of validation on artifacts in your project. You can see all validation that's performed under Validation property page in the same dialog. In that page, you can selectively disable the categories of validation that you don't want.
The Script Builder comes from PDT and presumably performs validation on the actual PHP artifacts. Outside of what you've already tried, I don't know of a way to disable it.
2 years later and I have the exact same problem with latest PDT.
This is what I did:
Validations:
Right-click project
Properties
Validation
Click checkbox "Enable project specific settings"
Click checkbox "Suspend all validators"
Script Builder:
Right-click project
Properties-
PHP Build Path
remove all folders from "Source folders on build path:"
or remove all but the ones you really want to be checked for syntax errors
Now "build" phase of PHP project is way shorter (like a half a second :)))
However, if you want to be able to navigate PHP source using Eclipse (like right-click on function and select "Open declaration" or pressing F3 on function name) then you need to leave folders in Script Builder with source you want to navigate. I had project with huge folders containing source of various frameworks and I removed those from "Source folders on build path:" and only left folder(s) with project source. That cut down build time to second or so.
I have the (mis)fortune of having a large project source-base in which I am working primarily on PHP and JavaScript. I have to have the full project area as the project root in Eclipse, but unfortunately this includes several directories that drive the validation built into WST/DLTK/etc. nuts.
I have tried disabling all validators in the project properties. I have gone into the validators one at a time and added rules to the "Exclude Group" set to exclude the specific folders. I have removed the folders from the PHP build path in the project properties. And yet, my Problems view/tab is still littered with thousands of red flags that stem mostly from a folder that we use to keep copies of external elements (Apache, PHP, etc.). You know, typical "have a copy of the specific versions we currently use" sort of thing.
The signal-to-noise ratio is so bad that I'm unable to use the view at all, which is a shame. If I'm not going to have the benefits of the IDE, I might as well be using vim for this (I use it for other stuff, but for this codebase a good IDE is a better choice, providing I can get it to work). It seems to me that it would be an obvious feature to be able to right-click a folder in a project and select "Exclude from Validation", but alas there is no such feature. Is there another way to get the validators (PHP, HTML, etc.) to ignore the folders I need ignored?
Tried solution;
Right click project
Select properties
Select validation
Check Enable Project specific settings
On the XML Validator row, click the '...' button
Select Exclude Gruop
Click Add rule
Select 'Folder or file name'
Click Next
Select files or folder which are not validated.
Click Finish
Click OK
Click OK
This solved my problem. Because eclipse validation gives error for generated GWT files.
Best regards.
I came upon this question while looking for the same answer. I will list the steps I did here and hopefully it will help someone in the future.
I am using Eclipse 4.1 and I do the following to exclude validation for specific xml files. I am sure if you configure the different validators it will work for other files as well.
Go to Preferences -> Validation
Find the Validator you wish to change and select settings (not all of the validators have settings, hopefully yours do).
In the settings you can add an Exclude Group where you can add a rule to specify to exclude the validator for specific extensions, folder or file name, project nature, facet or content type.
I have Eclipse for PHP Developers and I was dealing with the same issue.
In addition tot he excellent answers above, I have one more suggestion.
My first recommendation is not to use Aptana unless you actually want those validators (as they are nearly impossible to turn off from my experience).
Beyond that, go to File -> Properties -> Builders, and deselect "Validation" and "Script Builder" and "JavaScript Validator".
So far it's helped speed up some operations tremendously.
I also recommend disabling "Automatic Build". Because you're using PHP, the odds that you actually need it to build anything if you don't want validation is slim.
In the main menu, go to Project and uncheck "Build Automatically". You will want to build your project every now and then by right clicking on the project and selecting "Build Project".
All the above steps have helped me get the basic editor, which is exactly what I wanted.
I used to exclude resources from validation via project specific Exclude Group (as the most answer here suggests). But in case anyone is still having problems with disabling validation for a specified folder in 2014 - just mark the folder resource as Derived:
This should disable validation for that folder.
If you are using EGIT you might also want to disable automatic inclusion of derived resources in .gitignore:
It is not really possible to select a directory, at least under Windows.
After having pressed Preferences->Validation->Settings->Add Exclude Group->Add Rule->Folder or filename->Browse Folder->(selecting some directory)->[OK]
The "Browse for folder" dialog is being closed, with the "File or folder" field staying empty.
I had the same problem with the web app i'm developping.
I ended up disabling automatic build, and building once a day (Project->Build automatically), that way i still get the benefits of code completion from libraries, while speeding up the program on older computers.
I found in the project properties there is a Builders category. In the list of builders I had a JavaScript Builder. I deselected this builder and all my annoying javascript validation woes went away.
this worked for me:
Properties > Builders section and unchecking the corresponding box. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=317833
seems to be a bug in some versions of eclipse.
There are more gloabal validation parameters. You can suspend all validation (or only the ones you don't need) by going to:
Window > Preferences > Validation.
Here, check the box "Suspend all validators".
Alternatively, uncheck the validators you don't need from the list below.
A full build will be requested which might take some time. But Eclipse will run a lot faster afterwards [But without validation of course]
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Solution.
Go configure what's displayed in the Problems View like lothar proposed, create new custom filter and in "Scope" area choose "On working set". Now press the button right below this option to configure what working set would it be: in working set selection pop-up hit the "New" button and mark all your project files EXCEPT those you want to exclude from validation. You might want to save this working set under convenient name, like "No_Validation_Set".
Summary:
1) working set excluding problematic files.
2) custom Problems View filter to operate on this set.
Issues:
when adding new files to project you need to update your working set, so they are validated too.
When I excluded files from validation for the project, my setting didn't seem to be recognised until I restarted Eclipse and cleaned the project.