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| Opening an Editor on a Type |
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| You can open an editor on any type in the workbench. |
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| Press <strong>Ctrl+Shift+T</strong> or, select <strong>Navigate</strong> > <strong>Open Type</strong> from the menu bar. The Open Type dialog opens. |
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| In the <strong>Enter type name prefix or pattern</strong> field, begin typing an expression to narrow the list of available types, using wildcards as needed. As you |
| type, the list is filtered to display only types that match the current expression. CamelCase notation is also supported; that means you aonly need to enter the capital letters |
| of the type name. |
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| In the <strong>Matching items</strong> list, select a type. Hint: you can press the <Strong>Down</strong> key to move to the first type. |
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| Click <strong>OK</strong> when you are done. An editor opens on the selected type. |
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| <strong>Note:</strong> The Open Type dialog maintains a history of recently opened types. |
| These are shown when the dialog is opened and stay above a separator line when you start to type a filter expression. |
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| <strong>Note:</strong> If you open a type from a CLASS or JAR file, you will see a special editor showing only method signatures unless you have attached source to it. |
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| <img src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts" border="0" > |
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| <a href="../concepts/concept-java-editor.htm">Java editor</a> |
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| <img src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" border="0" > |
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| <a href="tasks-73.htm">Opening an editor for a selected element</a> |
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| <img src="../images/ngrelr.png" alt="Related reference" border="0" > |
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| <a href="../reference/ref-dialog-open-type.htm">Open type dialog</a><br> |
| <a href="../reference/ref-menu-navigate.htm">Navigate actions</a><br> |
| <a href="../reference/views/ref-viewsandeditors.htm">Views and editors</a> |
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