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Explore the project window

Explore the project window

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Explore the project window

- [Instructor] IntelliJ IDEA's project window lets you find all of your files, and see your file and folder structure for your project. You can get to the project window by clicking on the tab on the top left, or you can go to the menu and select View, Tool Windows, Project, and you'll see that there's a keyboard shortcut associated with that. Or as with many of the tool windows you can move the cursor down to the lower left, hover the cursor over that icon down there, and you'll see a pop-up menu that offers some of the most commonly used windows. The project window has multiple scopes. The scope determines how the files and folders are displayed. The default scope is also called project, and it shows the actual directory structure of your project. And also a lot of the files and folders that might be hidden, depending on your operating system if you are looking at that project directory in a file manager…

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