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<h1 class="Head">
New Project wizard</h1>

<div class="Intro">This wizard helps you create a new project in the Workbench.</div>


<p class="Para">When you first bring up the New Project wizard, you need to select 
  the type of project you want to create.&nbsp; Select the General type if you 
  want to create a generic project. To assist in locating a particular wizard, 
  the text field can be used to show only the wizards that match the entered text. </p>

<p class="Para"><img src="../images/Image11_new_wizard.png" alt="New project wizard" border="0"/></p> 
<div class="Topic">
<h2>
Create a New Project Resource Page</h2>
When you select Next, you will be presented with the New Project Resource
Page, containing the following edit fields:
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<tr>
<th>
<div class="Para">Field</div>
</th>

<th>
<div class="Para">Description</div>
</th>

<th>
<div class="Para">Default</div>
</th>
</tr>

<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
<div class="Para">Project Name</div>
</td>

<td align="left" valign="top">
<div class="Para">The name of the new project to be created.</div>
</td>

<td align="left" valign="top">
<div class="Para">&lt;blank&gt;</div>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
<div class="Para">Location</div>
</td>

<td align="left" valign="top">
<div class="Para">The location in the file system where the project will
be created. Deselect "Use default location" to specify a location other
than the default.&nbsp; You can type the new location or browse to select
a file system location for the new project.</div>
</td>

<td align="left" valign="top">
<div class="Para">The workspace root directory</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>


  <p class="Para">After you indicate a name and location for the project, you 
    can either click <strong>Finish </strong>to create the project, or you can 
    click <strong>Next </strong>to set up project dependencies on the Select Referenced 
    Projects page.</p> 
  <p class="Para">Here is what the New Project Resource page looks like:</p>

  <p class="Para"><img src="../images/Image251_proj_wiz.png" alt="New project name and location page" border="0"/></p></div>

<div class="Topic">
<h2>
Select Referenced Projects page</h2>

<div class="Para">In the Referenced Projects list, you can set project
dependencies for the new project. In the list of other projects in the
Workbench, you can select one or more projects on which you want the new
project to depend.&nbsp; Initially, no projects will be selected.</div>


  <p class="Para">Click <strong>Finish</strong> when you are done to create the 
    new project in the Workbench.</p> 
  <p class="Para">Here is what the Select Referenced Projects page looks
like:</p>

  <p class="Para"><img src="../images/Image252_projref_page.png" alt="Project references page" border="0" /></p></div>

<div class="Topic">
<h2>
New Project perspective options</h2>

<div class="Para">On the <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"/> <a class="command-link" href='javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Perspectives)")'>
    <strong>General &gt; Perspectives</strong></a> preference page, you can change the way that new projects are initially
    displayed. For details on how to change this option see <a href="ref-10.htm">General</a>.</div>
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<h3 class="related">Related reference</h3>
<a href="ref-27.htm">Project Explorer View</a>

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