Hi Jim, I am just getting started with eclipse. I did figure out that I can hold down the control and tap the F6, 7, or 8 and cycle through everything. At first I thought it was like control F4, not needing other taps of F4. Is this a tip or am I just learning more. I am reading the eclipse cookbook from BookShare. Susie Stanzel -----Original Message----- From: program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Corbett, James Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:47 AM To: 'program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [program-java] Re: Eclipse: Tip #4 Anna: Sorry, don't know how to resolve this one.... However, the recommended standard is to implicitly import the required files. ...for example if you import: Import java.utils.*: ...the human readability factor goes down. Essentially really knows what sub features of this jar you are using with out reading every line of code. J. -----Original Message----- From: program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Anna Giller Sent: December 4, 2009 09:40 To: program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-java] Re: Eclipse: Tip #4 Hi Jim! I don't use this keystroke but by some means Eclipse automatically puts imports for me. It puts a separate import for each refered class. The problem is that when there are too many imports from the same package, I want to combine them into a single import using *. Eclipse completely ignores what I do, and again puts a separate import for each refered class. Do you know how to fix it? Thank you, Anna ________________________________ From: program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-java-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Corbett, James Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:31 AM To: 'program-java@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [program-java] Eclipse: Tip #4 Eclipse: Tip #4 Dec 04, 2009 ...did you know that while editing a class, if you make a reference to lets say another class with in a method or class body you can add the necessary imports by simply using ctrl + shift + the letter o.... Eclipse is intelligent enough to know what imports are required to satisfy the compiler.... J. James M. Corbett A - Technical Specialist GST/HST Micros | Micros de la TPS/TVH Business Suite Assessing Systems (BSAS) Revenue and Accounting Systems Directorate (RASD) | Direction des Systèmes de revenu et de comptabilité (DSRC) Information Technology Branch (ITB) | Direction générale de l'informatique (DGI) Canada Revenue Agency | Agence du revenue du Canada (613) 941-1338 .FinishProject(.getItDone, .getItRight, { Right Now }) DevMicro...