Eclipse File Associations: Image Display

Question

I am developing some reference documentation in a Java project in Eclipse. The resources folder has my HTML pages and several GIF and PNG images that will be displayed inside the HTML.

Now for my convenience, I want to view images in the file structure of the project, see what they show, and which one to include in the HTML page. If I double-click the image, the default action that Eclipse performs is this: it opens in Internet Explorer. Since I don't like IE, I want to change this default action. In fact, I would rather have it open some kind of image viewer inside Eclipse.

I know this is a file association issue. However, I could not get it to work.

What I tried to do so far:

As an example, I did this for * .gif.

I went to Preferences -> General -> Editors -> File Associations . There I clicked "Add ..." and added *.gif .

Then I clicked "Add ..." in the "Related Editors" section and added an external gif view:

I expected this to open the default image viewer from my Windows system, but for some reason, it still opens it in Internet Explorer.

So what can I do to change this? Does Eclipse have an internal image viewer?

Answer 1

Why not just install the image view plugin

http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/quickimage → http://psnet.nu/c/quickimage

Sources https://github.com/persal/quickimage

Answer 2

There was nothing wrong with Eclipse, and the solution described is in order.

Actually the problem was on a Windows system. The default system file association for images was Internet Explorer. Change this solution to the problem.

Answer 3

right click on the file → open C .. and then select → System Editor (it should remain selected as a check box)

After that, you can double-click the file and open it using a suitable application. My environment is eclipse indigo build 1857 on gentoo linux

EDIT: When you associate some external software with an extension, you should see the entire application related to the extension (above) in the "Open with .." menu. Then you can see: Text editor - System editor - Default editor - Other ...

• Text editor: open the file with a text editor
• System editor: open the file with the application associated with the extension in the operating system.
• Default editor: open the file using the application (by default) associated with you in the section "Settings" → "General" → "Editor" → "File", etc ...

You should have something like this image, without the "Editor in place"

Answer 4

Eclipse Oxygen (4.7)

Eclipse Oxygen (4.7) added the following function - Images are opened in the Eclipse IDE .

You just need to double-click the file name in the package explorer.

The file URI is as follows: file:/// + absolute path:

Now there is an error related to the URI shown on the right side. If you rename a file, it will not be updated without reopening the file.