Posted by daverj on 2017-03-04 08:19

Hi, I’m new to Eclipse and System Workbench and I’m not sure if I am understanding the correct way to use workspaces vs projects.

I’m currently experimenting with the STM32L476G-EVAL board and going through the examples in the STM32L4 firmware package. On the first project I opened I thought that the workspace was supposed to be the overall folder that holds everything, so I pointed the workspace at the outer folder that holds the entire STM32L4 firmware tree of folders. Then imported the specific project folder for one of the examples deep within that tree of folders. It worked OK and I was able to compile and debug it.

I then went to try another project and when I went to import it, it said that the project was already in the workspace and wouldn’t let me import it. And I couldn’t figure out any way to open it as a project.

So I figured I had the workspace wrong. So I changed the workspace to point to the SW4STM32 folder that contained the project folder, deep inside the tree of folders in the STM32L4 firmware tree of folders. That worked. And I did it again for the next couple of projects, each time setting the workspace to be the SW4STM32 folder that contains the project folder, and each of them worked fine.

But then I noticed that if I wanted to open one of the previous projects, I had to change workspace. And that causes System Workbench to basically restart with the new workspace, closing the old workspace.

But what if I want to have two of those projects open at the same time? I am used to, in other IDEs, opening several projects at once and being able to compare files between them or copy code from one to another, or make modifications to a group of related projects.

Is it possible to open multiple workspaces at the same time? If not, then how do I open multiple projects at the same time that might be scattered around in different locations?

(if it matters, I’m on Win7)