January 16th, 2009 1 Comment »
Integrated Development Environments in general and Eclipse/Aptana Studio specifically provide tree-based project explorers used to locate and launch files by displaying the file system that contains your project code. Typically the simple directory and file tree is marked up with:
- Icons for different file extensions
- Version information about the directories and files if connected to a version control system
- Context menus specific to each directory and file
This widely accepted approach to represent code files in a project has worked well in the past because projects and project components were typically:
