As a long-time Visual Studio user, I often use Find in Files to find things throughout the project.
In IntelliJ, this is causing me problems, because sometimes IntelliJ decides, for some reason, that what I want is "Directory" rather than "In Project". (I usually notice this after I'm baffled by the small number of matches.)
How can I get IntelliJ to exclusively open Find in Files in In Project mode, and never in one of the other settings?
There is no way to invoke Find in Files action with In Project scope instead of Directory permanently. Find in Files switches to Directory automatically if you are focusing in the Project tool window (View | Tool Windows | Project). Otherwise, it opens in the previous state.
You can see and follow IDEA-270151 to change the current behavior.
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Really basic question here but this has always stopped me from using any JetBrains product, but here I am trying once again. I also have the same issues with CLion but that will be for another time and hopefully I can figure it out based on some feedback from this post.
I need to set up my environment in IntelliJ. Nothing special. No build tools. Currently I just run my school projects using
javac Main.java
java Main
This has gotten me so far but I really want to use IntelliJ tools to their full capacity.
I want to be able to set break points and step in and out of my code in their debugger and all the other nice tools that come with running my code through IntelliJ
Every get started tutorial that I have watched on YouTube or from JetBrains themselves already has a basic build configuration set up to run your basic "Hello World" application and that is what I think I need. Just compile my java files into classes and run/debug them.
This is what the run configuration icon in the IDE should look like
And this is what mine currently looks like
I have set many different JDKs to go along with my projects but none of them seem to get the tools I need set up in the IDE. I have even let IntelliJ download one for me and set it up itself to see if maybe I downloaded and installed it wrong and IntelliJ maybe wasn't recognizing it.
This picture below is showing the project structure for an application that I let IntelliJ download a JDK for and set it up itself
So if someone could help me that would be fantastic. Links to videos, blogs are welcome even though I know that isn't the convention on this forum but I think that would be sufficient for my situation. Thanks in advance!
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I have found that if I create a project in IntelliJ that I get all the default configurations that I need. The problem is when I need to get a project from VCS that I am not getting any of the configurations that I need to run/debug my program in IntelliJ.
The easiest solution here would be to click the green play button next to your main method, on the left where line numbers are displayed.
Intellij will configure a default java run configuration for you. It will be displayed in the menu for later use, like in the screenshot you posted, after your first run.
You can also create one using the to menu: Run > Edit run configuration to add some more options like arguments, environment variables (that only apply for the run config), etc.
A good starting point would be the Intellij help page on that topic. This help pages are always a good start and you find comprehensible instructions there on every topic.
Another good resource is the Intellij by JetBrains YouTube channel. This video about debugging shows both ways I described above. They have lots of quick tutorials about lot of features, like code generation or build tools. Check out the channel's playlists for specific topics.
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The problem with the already created project is that the default/ folder is not marked as source folder. You can do that by File > 'Project Structure...' and set the default/ folder as Sources:
The cause for intellij not recognizing this is because you didn't use a folder structure like the one of maven.
For source code:
src/main/java
src/main/resources
and for tests:
src/test/java
src/test/resources
If you set it up that way IntelliJ everything works as expected. I created a pull request to your repo. If you check out the branch, IntelliJ will setup everything correctly automatically.
As an daily IntelliJ user you usually concentrate on the projects you are working on and IntelliJ is just a tool. You are not willing to dig into tool's problem itself. But this is what is forced on you by default after IntelliJ installation on MacOS and opening relatively big project(most of the projects nowadays are huge and have thousands of files and use numbers of IntelliJ 3rd party plugins).
Here is a minimal list of actions. IntelliJ must have set MORE RAM to be used by default.
Read: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/207241085-Locating-IDE-log-files .
From IntelliJ open Help / Show log in Finder and open idea.log file with Console.app; In Console.app press "Reload" and "Now" buttons to track "live" what IntelliJ is doing.
If in logs of IntelliJ you find that some of the plugins exit with fatal error, you just uninstall those plugins. For me the one that failed to the moment of this answer was "BashSupport" as example.
Start Terminal.app ; Run command: open -a TextEdit /Applications/IntelliJ\ IDEA.app/Contents/bin/idea.vmoptions ; Change options in idea.vmoptions file to:
-Xms1024m
-Xmx2048m ; Read https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/tuning-the-ide.html to see how you can tune IntelliJ for your project. This step is handy when your IntelliJ app doesn't start at all and you want to change properties in a global way.
From IntelliJ open Help / Edit Custom Properties.... Here you can set same properties that will override global and will work only for current OS user.
Also there is also a possibility of underlying OS to do it voodoo magic so the IntelliJ won't work as it should like here - https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000398280-IDEA-Ultimate-2018-2-Unable-to-save-settings-Unable-to-create-file-Windows-10
Make sure your project build output for *.class files is set. Read: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360000000584-Build-does-nothing . In my case when IntelliJ started project build it terminated without warnings shortly after.
Finally in my case none of 6 steps above solved the issue so I found this read: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115000532044-IntelliJ-cannot-build-projects . Basically try reinstall IntelliJ from original distribution again.
I know that you must read https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea every time you install a new version of IntelliJ, but why not to add some consistency into configuration process of the main java process that runs IntelliJ itself? You can ask how much ram to use during installation of IntelliJ and explain why it is so. Then Help digging won't be necessary in the first place for devs who fed up with changing those default settings that will be always more than 700MB. I think for most devs out there it is at least 10x of that. I bet what makes most devs mad about this is not the fact that you need to do some options changing, but where those options are depending on OS plus the fact that you simply forget why IntelliJ app just exits while you are doing a debugging of your own app. I bet this problem makes us mad since first java based IDEs appeared. User-friendly is the key here and explicit reminders within the app itself would help.
I often work with multiple projects open at a time. If I already have a project open and I go to open another existing project, the newly-opened project window will open behind the project window I was just working on. In other words, the new window does not become active. It's extremely annoying and has led to repo mistakes on multiple occasions.
Is this the normal/intended behavior and if so, can it be changed to force the newly-opened project to become the active window?
WebStorm 2017.2.4
Win7 x64
Opening other project in foreground is normal behavior.
More likely you have faced a bug. It's already reported on the JetBrains bugtracker and not fixed yet. Here its status, you can check there if somebody has found some workaround, vote up and subscribe for notifications.
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Although I followed the instructions on how to open a Project ( see also How to create a new project in adobe-brackets?) this does not work for my project-directory which is mapped via sshfs.
Brackets will show the sshfs directory but without any contents. (neither files nor subdirs)
Opening other locally stored directories works like a charm.
Any hints/suggestions?
Update: This is fixed in the latest release of Brackets, Sprint 34. You should now be able to open files on SSHFS file systems with no trouble.
original answer:
What platform are you on? If Linux, you might be seeing bug #5292, which is currently under investigation.
If not, it might be best if you just file a new bug specifying your platform and any other details, and then the Brackets devs (of which I am one) can take a look. When reporting a bug, always check the console log via Debug > Show Developer Tools and paste any exceptions there into your bug report.
im making a vb.net app and i want to set the icon, how can i do this?
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turns out i was a bit confused, and it was working. but the answers can still be useful for others.
If I understand the question and issue, your setup/installer might be missing something.
It would seem you did create a shortcut, add it to the Setup project to install to the Desktop (else you wouldnt have one at all)
Select the shortcut in your setup project, open the properties window
Click Target. The list of files you are installing will come up. Select the App.Exe (ie the main executable "MyApp.exe" ususally the primary output). I think Icon is supposed to be set to "Icon" as well.
I think those 2 things combined link the Desktop Shortcut's Icon property to Use the App.Exe's. If there is also a shortcut in the user's programs menu do the same thing (or drag drop a copy).
You are basically doing to the Setup Project's shortcut what you would do to a normal desktop icon to change it or set it. The proj apparently fills in the actual path etc at install.
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PUBLISH simply compiles everything and produces files for the dev to distribute. It is called PUBLISH because in many cases the output includes a ready to use Setup program for the END USER to install on the PC. (Based on your new Pic, you are trying to reinstall everytime you click the icon or file inside the folder.)
Again, if you do not add a Setup proj to your project, the default one is used and it gives no option for where to install and does not add a shortcut.
Just delete all that junk, Publish again to the default location (VS Studio\...Project name\bin\Publish). Go to that folder and run setup. It will still install to Users\AppData.. but will add a shortcut (to the program) to the start menu.
For a desktop icon, do the "Send To Desktop ..." thing. To INSTALL an icon, you have to add and modify a Setup proj to your Solution.
HTH
'The folder shows the icon for the app, but the icon for the form is different. change the form's icon(in the property grid) to the same as the app and you should see it then.
When you publish it there's 2 files produced that are basically setup files. One relies on the ClickOnce Application Deployment Support Library and the other is a standalone setup app. Since neither one is the actual app you designed, they aren't going to have the icon you want. You'll probably have to investigate other more configurable deployment options.