Starting or Adding a Project

Starting or Adding Your Project

Distributed NetBeans recognizes your 3GL (C/C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, and PASCAL) source files and associates them with specific properties and actions.

Starting a new project

To start a new project:

Select the filesystem from Filesystems in which you want to create your project.
Click the New button to open the New Wizard.
Expand the OpenVMS language folder (where language is C/C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, or PASCAL).
Select the appropriate template file with which to start your project.
Click Next to open the Target Location page and select a directory where you want to save your source files and build them.
A new file appears at the location you have selected in Filesystems, and the Source Editor makes the file available for editing. Syntax coloring and/or making font bold serve to highlight various language elements.

To accelerate the process of selecting templates for your project:

Right click on your project directory and select New from the context menu.
Ensure that the correct directory is selected when you right-click, because this is the target location of the new file.
Select from the cascading menus the OpenVMS language folder, and then the template file you want to add to the project.
Your final selection opens the New Object Name page of the New Wizard, where you specify a name for the new file and click Finish.
The file is saved to your project directory (that is, the directory that you have selected by right-clicking in Filesystems).

Starting with an existing project

To start with an existing project, mount the project directory (or a parent directory) in Filesystems.

Select Mount Filesystem from the File menu or right-click the Filesystems icon.
Select Mount and then Local Directory.
On the New Wizard - Local Directory page, select or browse for a directory. (You can also create a new directory.) Each language file type has specific properties and actions that are made available from the context menu by right-clicking the object.

Note By default, Distributed NetBeans recognizes the standard source file extensions for each language. Distributed NetBeans associates the corresponding properties, actions and icons with them. If there are other associations you need to add or modify, you can change these default associations.