Working With Linked Resources

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Some developers like to have source code, either via a folder or .AS files, added to their project that is saved on their workstation outside of their project. The solution for this is to use FDT's 'Linked Resource' feature.

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Adding & Creating A Bookmark

Begin by right clicking on your project and selecting 'Properties'.

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FDT will then open up your project properties panel.

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Once here, if you have already created bookmarks for resources, you can choose them. If not you can click 'Add' to create more resource bookmarks.

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Customizing

Showing Errors

After adding the resource to the build path, you can chose to have FDT show errors in the Problems and Explorer views.

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Editing

By default, Linked Resources are locked and can't be edited. If a developer wishes to directly edit a file, she will need to enable edits in Linked Resources.

This is done be going to Preferences>FDT>Misc>Enable working in linked libraries

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