eclipse hide a item entirely from processing

Question

My requirement: To hide specific file/folder from the project explorer.

Following the steps given on below link, i am able to successfully do so, http://help.eclipse.org/luna/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Ftasks%2Ftasks-48b.htm

But, I want to hide them entirely from the processing, e.g. If I do a search for some word in *.java files, results show up from the hidden folder as well. Any way to exclude it from search results (or from entire processing of what eclipse looks for) ?

Answer 1

Resources marked as 'derived' are ignored by most things.

You can set the derived flag on the 'Resource' tab of the file or folder Properties.

You can use the IResource.setDerived method to set the flag programatically.