You can navigate archives directly in the Archives Browser either by opening them from the Navigator or by using the integration with the Eclipse File System.
For the EFS (Eclipse File System) integration you must right click the archive in the Navigator and choose Expand Zip Archive. All the standard Eclipse Navigator actions are available on the mounted archive. If you decide to close the archive you can use the Collapse ZIP Archive action located in the contextual menu for the expanded archive. Any file opened from the archive expanded in the EFS will be closed when the archive in unmounted.
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The ZIP support needs the IBM437 character set to be properly installed in the
Java Runtime Environment in order to be able to navigate/open ZIP archives. If
you encounter the following error message when expanding ZIP archives
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then the JRE
used to run Eclipse does not have the character set library properly installed.
If you open an archive as an Eclipse editor, the archive will be unmounted when the editor is closed.
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If a file extension is not known by <oXygen/> as a supported archive type you can add it from the Archive preferences page . |
The following operations are available on the Archive Browser's toolbar:
- New folder...
Create a new folder as child of the selected folder in the browsed archived.
- New file...
Create a new file as child of the selected folder in the browsed archived.
- Add files...
Add some already existing files as children of the selected folder in the browsed archived.
- Delete
Delete the selected resource in the browsed archived.
- Archive Options...
Open the Archive preferences page.
The following additional operations are available from the Archive Browser's contextual menu:
