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<h1 CLASS="Head"> Workspace</h1>
<p CLASS="Head">On the
<a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Workspace)")'>
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<strong>General &gt; Workspace</strong></a>
preference page, you can manage
various IDE-specific workspace preferences settings in the Workbench. </p>
<table width="75%" border="1">
<tr>
<td><strong>Option</strong></td>
<td><strong>Description</strong></td>
<td><strong>Default</strong></td>
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<td>Build automatically</td>
<td>If this option is turned on, then the Workbench will perform an automatic
build whenever a modified resource is saved.</td>
<td>On</td>
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<td>Save automatically before build</td>
<td>If this option is selected, when a manual build is performed the Workbench
will automatically save all resources that have been modified since the
last build was performed.<br></td>
<td>Off<br></td>
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<td>Workspace save interval (in minutes) </td>
<td>This number indicates how often the state of the workspace is automatically
saved to disk.</td>
<td>5</td>
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<td>Refresh automatically</td>
<td><p>If this option is turned on then the workspace resources will be synchronized
with their corresponding resources in the file system automatically.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: This can potentially be a lengthy operation depending
on the number of resources you have in your workspace. </p></td>
<td>Off </td>
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<TD COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left">Open referenced projects when a
project is opened</TD>
<TD COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left">If this option is enabled opening
a project will also open and closed projects it references. Select prompt
if you wish to be asked first.</TD>
<TD COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left">Prompt</TD>
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<TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para">Text
file encoding</P></TD>
<TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para"> Use
this option to specify the encoding to use when saving text files in editors.
</P></TD>
<TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para">Default
(CP1252)</P></TD>
</TR>
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<TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para">Text
File line delimiter</P></TD>
<TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para"> Use
this option to specify the line delimiter to use for new text files. <strong>Note:</strong>
This will generally not effect the file line delimiter for<br>
existing files.</P></TD>
<TD ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1" valign="top" align="left"> <P CLASS="Para">Default
</P></TD>
</TR>
</table>
<p>&nbsp;</p><p>Here is what the <strong>Workspace</strong> preferences page looks like:</p>
<p><img src="../images/Image209_workspace.png" alt="Preference dialog" border="0" ></p>
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