Retrieving a project from a Build project file

When a project is not open in Build, there are only two menus available, 'File' and 'Help'. To retrieve an existing project, select 'file', 'Open Project

A directory dialog will be displayed from which you can select the Build project file that you wish to retrieve. All build project files are named 'build_project.bpr' and are qualified by the directory in which they reside.

You may also open a recent EiffelBuild project via the 'Recent Projects' entry of the 'file' menu as shown below:

This list contains the most recent projects that have been used within EiffelBuild, and if none are available, this list is empty and the menu option disabled.

See Also:
Creating a new project