Although all paths are displayed as absolute paths in the project properties dialog, they aren't necessarily stored that way. If you take a peek into your ipr file you'll notice that any references below your project directory are stored as relative (e.g. file://$PROJECT_DIR$/classes).
Unfortunately, if a ref isn't below your project directory IDEA seems to store it as absolute. For example, I might reference jar files that are outside my project directory structure. IDEA should be able to store references such as: file://$PROJECT_DIR$/../common/myjar.jar JBuilder stores paths this way, which is very convenient when you want to share. The only case in which this can't be done is when referenced files or directories live on different drives relative to your project. -Khaled. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paddy Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "eap-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:35 AM Subject: [Eap-list] Relative Paths > Is it my imagination, or is it impossible to save relative paths in the > project properties dialog of IDEA. This makes it difficult to share between > two developers or move it to a different place. > > Is there a way around this problem ? > Do you intend changing this functionality in a future release ? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
